Fr. Ronan Herlihy OFM Cap., Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap. and Benedict Nambota at a national award ceremony in Lusaka to honour Fr. Benignus for his relief work in Zambia.
Letter from Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. (1898-1983) to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, on the progress of building work in Northern Rhodesia. He writes: ‘These buildings of course will be of native constructions, up to the time that the Fathers will have enough bricks made to build good buildings’.
Colour map showing the locations of present-day and former Irish Capuchin mission stations and foundations in the Western Province of Zambia (formerly known as Barotseland in the colonial era).
Cuttings from the 'Irish Catholic' of reports by Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap. on the work of the late Br. Andrew O’Shea OFM Cap. at the Sioma Mission, founded in 1953, and at the Senanga Mission, located on the banks of the Zambezi River.
Cutting from the 'North Cork News' of an article on the friendship between the Irish Jesuit, Fr. Robert Thompson SJ (d. 1995), and the former President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda.
The series contains the correspondence of Irish Capuchin missionary friars chronicling their work in both South Africa and in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). Much of the correspondence is with Provincial Ministers, Provincial Secretaries and Mission Secretaries and includes letters from overseas’ superiors regarding personnel and administrative matters, health care and education projects, evangelization and ministry, and financial matters. Many of the early letters provide personal accounts of the missionary’s activities with details of their work in the field.