Photographic album of Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. (1915-2005). The album contains un-captioned black and white photographic prints. Fr. Albert was resident in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) from 1945-67. The volume contains captioned prints relating to Fr. Albert’s ministry in the country including: • Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with first communicants in Livingstone. • Interior views of the High Altar and Sanctuary of St. Theresa’s Church, Livingstone. • An aerial view of St. Theresa’s Church and the surrounding suburbs of Livingstone. • Views of Victoria Falls, Northern Rhodesia. • Altar servers. • Excursion trips for Altar servers. • First Holy Communion Day in Livingstone in 1948 and 1952. The names of the parents and children are given in captions. • The wedding of Mr and Mrs Butcher in Livingstone. • Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. (1915-2005) with African religious sisters at an air-strip in Northern Rhodesia.
Photographic prints of Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia. The prints are extant on loose cards taken from a photographic album (CA AMI/2/10/1/2). Most of the prints have been annotated: Capuchin friars at the Maramba mission station. Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. at the Livingstone Capuchin Friary. Confirmations at the Maramba mission station. Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap. Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1940. ‘Fathers, Sisters and girl boarders, Easter 1941’. The mission car in 1941. A trek to a mission station in 1937. ‘Hoisting a roof on a mission hut’. A local cook with his wife at an Irish Capuchin mission station. The building of the first Capuchin mission church in 1938. The interior of a mission church in 1939. Local game shot outside the mission grounds. Preparations for an eight-week trek through the bush. The Capuchin community in Sichili in 1937 (Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. and Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap.). A local teacher and altar servers. The building of the father’s dwelling at a mission station. Scenes on the way to Sesheke (including the local chief’s hut). The Parish Church and Capuchin Friary in Livingstone.
Detail of Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. giving his blessing to the laity following his consecration as Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.
Hendrik Verwoerd (later Prime Minister of South Africa) with Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. during his visit to the mission station at Katima Mulilo in the Caprivi Strip, South West Africa (Namibia).
Capuchin Friars in Livingstone on the occasion of the silver jubilee of Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. The group includes Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. Fr. Ronan Herlihy OFM Cap., Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap., Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Bartholomew Prendiville OFM Cap., and Fr. Alexander Halligan OFM Cap.
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’.
Copy letter from Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap. to the Assistant Manager, Barclay’s Bank, Goodenough House, London, re overdraft facilities (up to £11,900) to be granted to the Most Rev. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Bishop of Livingstone, for the administration of Capuchin missions in his diocese
