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The exterior of Mangango Capuchin Friary, Zambia.

The exterior of Mongu Teacher Training College (TCC) in Malengwa, Zambia.

Group photograph of friars at the Zambian Capuchin Chapter in Monze. The group includes Fr. Terence Harrington OFM Cap., Fr. Adrian Curran OFM Cap., Fr. James Connolly OFM Cap., Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Philip Baxter OFM Cap., Fr. Kieran Shorten OFM Cap., Br. Rod Pieretti OFM Cap., Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap., Fr. John Grace OFM Cap. and several Zambian-born friars.

Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap., Br. Godfrey Sinvula OFM Cap., Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Danny Gomez OFM Cap. and Fr. Edwin Flynn OFM Cap. at the Zambian Capuchin Chapter in Monze.

Br. Francis Sikapande OFM Cap., Br. Dominic Chanda OFM Cap., Br. Mathew Ngwenya OFM Cap., and Br. Elliot Ngosa OFM Cap. playing drums at the Zambian Capuchin Chapter in Monze.

The exterior of the Mission Church at Chavuma, Zambia. The original caption reads ‘Pole and dagga church’.

Reports on school inspections in the Northern Rhodesian mission compiled by Fr. Luke Browne OFM Cap. The reports are chronological and give information on the physical condition of the schools, the numbers of pupils and teachers, attendance, and the catechism and subjects taught in the schools. Reference is made to schools in Lusense, Schuckmannsburg (now Luhonono in the Caprivi Strip), Sichili, Kasika and Twambo.

Information booklet explaining the history and work of the Irish Capuchin missionaries in the Prefecture Apostolic of Victoria Falls, Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia.

Letters of Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (1902-1979). The correspondents include Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary; Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister., and Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap., General Minister. The subjects include: the progress of the Irish Capuchin mission in Barotseland and Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia; the Silozi catechism; the Loanja station; requests for financial assistance and loans for the Northern Rhodesian mission; missionary activities in Cape Town, South Africa; the recognition of five parishes in the Cape as coming under Irish Capuchin jurisdiction (1946); the Katima Mulilo mission station in the Caprivi Strip (1949); Fr. Phelim’s appointment as Regular Superior of the Victoria Falls Mission; the completion of the church at Langa (1949); the deaths of Fr. Eustace Burke OFM Cap. and Fr. Donatus Aherne OFM Cap. (1949); Educational matters in the missionary territories; the appointment of Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. as Education Secretary General (1949); the need for more missionary sisters (Holy Faith Sisters, Sisters of Mercy, the Irish Sisters of Charity and the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Africa); the opening of the church at the Holy Family Mission, Katima Mulilo. (Mar. 1954); the building of a new convent and girls’ boarding school at Maramba. (July 1953); his proposal to resign as Bishop of Livingstone ‘in line with the gradual Zambianization of the Hierarchy’. (10 Aug. 1969). Reference is also made to the activities of the following Capuchin friars: Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap.; Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap.; Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap.; Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap.; Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap.; Fr. Eltin Daly OFM Cap. The file also includes a manuscript copy of an ‘Approved Prayer for the Conversion of Africa’ and a typescript copy of a ‘Spiritual portrait of Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.’ by Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap. (Livingstone, 1992). 19 pp.

A postcard print captioned ‘Liberty Hall, Headquarters of the Citizen Army, after Bombardment’.