Date: 1885 Author: Fr. Léopold de Chérancé OSFC; Fr. Arsène de Chatel OSFC; Fr. Louis-Antoine de Porrentruy OSFC (1835-1912); et al. Publisher: Paris, Librarire Plon, E.Plon, Nourrit Full title: 'Saint François d’Assise: I. Vie de Saint François; II. Saint François après sa mort'. Physical description: XVI, 438 pp; illustrations by Fr. Louis -Antoine de Porrentruy OSFC; 35 cm x 29 cm
A view of the first Dutch Reformed Mission Church in the Cape Flats region of Cape Town in South Africa. The print is annotated: ‘The recently completed church in Lawrence Road, Athlone. It has seating accommodation for about 500 people’. Manuscript annotation reads: ‘This is for non-Europeans. The whites have another. Built [in] two months’.
Copy print of the Most Rev. John Evangelist McBride OFM (1903-1991), Bishop of Kokstad, South Africa. The print is on the reverse of a memorial card which notes that he was professed on 17 Sept. 1925; Ordained Priest on 3 July 1927; Ordained Bishop on 25 July 1949. He served as Bishop of Kokstad until 1978.
Cardinal Owen McCann, the former Archbishop of Cape Town, with Fr. Bartholomew Prendiville OFM Cap. and Fr. Raymond Dillane OFM Cap. in Athlone parish, Cape Town, South Africa.
Souvenir booklet published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Capuchin presence in Parow parish, and the building of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Cape Province, South Africa. The publication includes an introduction by Fr. Noel Winston OFM Cap. with and notes and photographs re the history of the Irish Capuchins in Parow.
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.
A complete copy of 'The Southern Cross', 12 Oct. 1949 (No. 1,514. Vol. XXIX), containing an obituary for Fr. Eustace Burke OFM Cap. referring to his work as a missionary in Barotseland (until Aug. 1947) and later in Cape Town, South Africa.
Memorandum by Monsignor Bruno Wolnik SJ (1882-1960), Prefect Apostolic of Broken Hill, re the establishment of the Irish Capuchin mission in Barotseland. He writes: ‘As soon as a piece of land is chosen and granted by the Paramount chief, settle there and start a few temporary buildings’.