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An image of Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap. and a religious sister with a First Communion group in Langa, Cape Town, South Africa.

Cutting of an article from 'The Southern Cross', 16 Nov. 1938, lamenting the recent departure of Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap. for California. The article reads: ‘Fr. Alban arrived in Cape Town some nine years ago and took over what was then a struggling, obscure little mission, know as St. Raphael’s, Athlone, Cape Flats, and now, on his departure, we find a handsome and commodious church … [and] a dignified and roomy presbytery’.

Notebook containing a record of the baptisms at the Loanja mission, Bartoseland, Northern Rhodesia. The record (which includes entries of adult baptisms and references to 'articulo mortis' or 'at the moment of death') was compiled by Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (1897-1980). The entries are listed under local (birth) name, tribe, village, Christian name, date of baptism, minister officiating, date, and in some instances date of death and place of burial. The end pages of the volume also contain miscellaneous notes re baptisms at the mission. With manuscript annotations (in Irish) by Fr. Padraig Ó Cuill OFM Cap. re Fr. Seraphin.

A truck on a pontoon at the Watopa ferry crossing in Northern Rhodesia.

Fr. Conor Brady OFM Cap. (1923-1993) and Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. at the grave of Fr. Gerard Joyce OFM Cap. in Sihole.

Photographic print of a postcard from Kenneth Kaunda (later President of Zambia) to Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea. The postcard was written during Kaunda’s visit to Rome and asks for ‘divine guidance … [during] our present crisis’.

Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, with Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. in Livingstone.

Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea, Fr. Elzear Barry OFM Cap. and mission friends and supporters during a trip to the United States.

Fr. Hugh Murphy OFM Cap. in Zambia. The original caption reads ‘Fr. Hugh Murphy arrived in Zambia in 1947; died in Livingstone on 9th March 1990’.

A group of Capuchin friars at an airstrip in Mongu in Western Zambia. The group includes the Cork-born friars, standing, third from the right, Fr. Luke Browne OFM Cap. (1920-2008), and, standing at left, Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. (1928-2006). The Wicklow-born Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap. (1917-2009) is seated, second on the right. The caption to the print identifies the aircraft in the background as a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver operated by Zambia Airways.