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The exterior of Sihole Church. The original caption reads: ‘Sihole Church blessed on 24 Dec. 1944’

Report on the Irish Capuchin mission in South Africa. It is noted that ‘much of the Fathers’ time is taken up with convert work, pre-nuptial courses and teaching Christian Doctrine to children attending the public schools’. Statistical information (population, racial composition, and number of priests) is given in respect of the friars’ work in Parow, Athlone, the Welcome Estate, Belgravia and Langa. It is affirmed that the ‘bulk of the non-white people, i.e. the poorest of this diocese, is attended by the Capuchin Fathers’.

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Sectional plan and front-view elevation of the proposed Church of the Immaculate Conception in Parow, Cape Town, South Africa. The plan is initialed ‘GA’ and is dated 19 January 1935.

A view of building work on the Church of St. Mary of the Angels in Athlone parish, Cape Town, South Africa. The print is annotated on the reverse: ‘The unfinished school and chapel at Athlone, Cape Flats’.

Cutting from a Kilkenny newspaper referring to a report in 'The Father Mathew Record' on an inspection tour by Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. and Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. for the proposed Irish Capuchin mission in South Africa. See also CA AMI/1/3/1.

Cutting from the 'Cork Examiner', 20 Oct. 1938, reporting on the opening of a bazaar in Father Mathew Hall, Cork, to aid the work of the Capuchin African missions.

The interior of the church at Sioma. The original caption reads: ‘First Church’.

Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with Br. Roch Robito OFM Cap. and the Most Rev. Fulton Sheen, Auxiliary Bishop of New York.

Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with Legion of Mary group at Sichili in Zambia.

A wedding group (the Neinhaus’s) at Malengwa. The group includes Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap.