Report on the Livingstone Mission by Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. (1928-2006) for the Irish Capuchin Provincial Chapter. The report is divided into the following sections:
Statistics compiled by the Regular Superior regarding the Irish Capuchin missions in South Africa and Northern Rhodesia. The statistical forms were compiled for the Capuchin General Curia. The forms include information in respect of the numbers of friars ministering at mission stations, the local populace (both European and indigenous), the numbers of Catholics and non-Catholics, the numbers of mission schools, hospitals and orphanages founded, and the numbers of baptisms and communions. The file includes a list of Irish Capuchins resident at mission stations in both Northern Rhodesia and in South Africa in June 1947 and in June 1952.
Print showing Capuchin friars at the Zambian Chapter meeting held at St. Bonaventure’s College, Lusaka, in 2001. The participants included Fr. Dermot Lynch OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Fr. Edwin Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. James Connolly OFM Cap., Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap., and Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap.
Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. at the rear of St. Theresa's Friary in Livingstone. The original caption reads: ‘In 1910 he left Ireland to help out in Hermiston, Oregon in the United States. Casimir began work and soon he had built a small church. Before he left Hermiston, Casimir built three mission churches. Casimir embarked on a new adventure, going to Cape Town, helping to establish a Capuchin presence there and then Zambia (then called Northern Rhodesia) where the Irish Capuchin Province had established a new mission. The Livingstone government had set aside a plot for a Catholic church and house. Casimir hired a contractor to build a house: ever since known as “217” (PO Box). Casimir was fifty-five years old when he arrived and was not in good health’.
Prospectus for the Capuchin formation and studies house in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The institute was open to Capuchin friars, Comboni fathers, Consolala fathers and Lazarist fathers.
Booklet titled 'Becoming a Pioneer / Lessons and Update' authored by Sister Mary Dympna O’Leary HCS and Sister Rita Brennan HCS. The booklet was intended to be used by Pioneer Total Abstinence Members in Africa. The publication was prepared by St. Raphael’s Printing and Computer Training Project, Mufulira, Zambia.
