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Report compiled by Fr. Edwin Flynn OFM Cap. and Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap. investigating the work being done by Irish Capuchins and lay missionary workers in the Diocese of Livingstone (particularly in the fields of education and medicine). The report was prepared for Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, and is divided into the following sections: ‘A brief history of the diocese, education, medicine, leper settlements, agriculture, credit unions, homecrafts, women’s clubs, youth clubs, the handicapped, radio and cultural research, miscellaneous projects. Two appendices are extant: a map of the diocese and the distances between mission stations.

Photographic albums of Fr. Owen O’Sullivan OFM Cap. The albums cover the years from 1971-1998 and include some personal, family and holiday (Ireland, Poland, Italy, and Bulgaria) photographs and prints relating to Fr. Owen’s missionary work in New Zealand and later in Zambia. He was resident in Zambia from 1978 to 1997. Most of the prints have been annotated by Fr. Owen on the reverse. The prints include:
Album: 1971-1985
Kamanga School, 25 July 1979
The road to Mangango, Sichili, 27 Mar. 1980
Fr. Owen celebrating Mass at Sichili on 24 Aug. 1980
Zambian friars at Limulunga, 25 June 1981
Sioma Church, 1984
Fr. Owen with Fr. Philip Baxter OFM Cap. and Kit Sheehan at the Victoria Falls Hotel, Jan. 1984
River-crossing on the way to Sioma, Oct. 1984
Fr. Flavio Roberto Carraro OFM Cap., Minister General, with friars in Sioma Convent, 15 Aug. 1985
Chief’s mafulo at Sikuma on the Angolan-Zambian border, 8 Aug. 1985
Lisisi Church built by Angolan refugees, 2 Sept. 1985
Litunga’s Palace at Limulunga, 10 Sept. 1985
Paddle pontoon on the Zambezi River, 10 Sept. 1985
Fr. Owen with local villagers and parishioners
Local wildlife including snakes, lizards, crocodiles and elephants
Album: 1984-1987
The Church and Convent at Sioma, Oct. 1984
Sioma Friary, Oct. 1984
Sioma Friary and School, Oct. 1984
Relief Centre Camp at Sioma, Oct. 1984
Zambian Capuchin Chapter, Lusaka, 3-8 Jan. 1985
Local children at Sikanda, a village near Sioma, Jan. 1985
Sioma Falls
Cross marker for Br. Louis de Vylder SJ (d. 29 Apr. 1883)
Boats at Kalabo Harbour, 10 Sept. 1985
Women plastering extension to guest house at Lisisi Church, 3 Dec. 1985
Picnic at Sioma Falls with Cheshire Home Children, 7 July 1986
Br. Hugh Davis OFM Cap.
Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap.
Canoe-making near Sibukali, 9 June 1987
Album: 1987-1991
Training session with church council leaders at Mwito, Zambia, 17 Sept. 1989
On the road from Mangango to Mukondo, Zambia, May 1990
Capuchin friars at a retreat in St. Kizito’s, Monze, Zambia, in 1990. The group includes Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap., Fr. Kieran Shorten OFM Cap., Fr. Philip Connor OFM Cap., Br. Patrick Chinyama OFM Cap., Br. Hugh Davis OFM Cap., Fr. Damian Loughrey OFM Cap., Br. Crispin Valeri OFM Cap., Fr. Terence Harrington OFM Cap. (the retreat-giver), Br. Declan O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Fr. Ronan Herlihy OFM Cap., Fr. Luke Browne OFM Cap., Fr. Connor Brady OFM Cap., and Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap.
The church and friary at Mangango, May 1990
Album: 1991-1993
Phelim Myambe painting the centenary cross marking ‘the centenary of the Catholic Church in Zambia. It marks the site (1937-1947) of the first Catholic mission in [the] Kaoma District’. Aug. 1991.
The Church of St. Simon and St. Jude at Mangango, 25 Dec. 1991
Dam on River at Mangango, May 1990
Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap. with Sr. Monica Weedon at Mangango FMDM Convent, Jan. 1992
Br. Kevin Crowley OFM Cap. at Mangango FMDM Convent, Jan. 1992
Fr. Angelus O’Neill OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, at Mangango FMDM Convent, Jan. 1992
The ordination of Br. Sylvester Zambala OFM Cap. as deacon at Mangango. The Ordination Mass was celebrated by Bishop Raymond Mpezele, Bishop of Livingstone, on 9 Aug. 1992
The old pontoon at Chinyingi built by Br. Crispin Valeri OFM Cap. The photograph was taken from the adjacent bridge, Nov. 1992
Album: 1994-1998
Fr. Owen with President Mary Robinson and her husband Nicholas at a reception in the Irish Embassy in Lusaka, Zambia, on 30 Sept. 1994
Capuchin friars welcoming Fr. John Corriveau OFM Cap., Minister General, to Malengwa, 12 Feb. 1996
Passion Play at Malengwa, 5 Apr. 1996
The grounds of Malengwa Friary, Feb. 1997
Farewell party for Fr. Owen in Malengwa, Feb. 1997
Capuchin missionaries’ reunion at Kilkenny Friary, 21 July 1997

Photographic print of a group of Capuchin friars with Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap. probably taken during his visitation in Africa in 1963. The photograph is annotated on the reverse giving the names of those present:
‘front row, left to right, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Alexander Halligan OFM Cap., Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. (Regular Superior), Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap. Back, from left to right: Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., Fr. Hugh Murphy OFM Cap.; Fr. Raymond Dillane OFM Cap., Fr. Bartholomew Prendiville OFM Cap., Fr. Eltin Daly OFM Cap., Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap.’.

A collection of Zambian missionary photographs assembled by Fr. Benjamin O’Connell OFM Cap. (1938-2010) for historical research purposes. Some of the prints are copies but the file does include some original prints. Many of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The collection includes images of:
• Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. outside the Rectory in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, in 1932.
• Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. and Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia in c.1935. The annotation on the reverse notes that the original image was taken from an album belonging to Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. On the reverse was written: ‘I think this is not a bad piece of architecture for a school master’s son’.
• Capuchin friars receiving their missionary crosses in Church Street before their departure for the African mission in 1943. The friars are Br. Xavier Cox OFM Cap., Fr. Eustace Burke OFM Cap., Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap., Br. Andrew O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. and Br. Fergus Buckley OFM Cap.
• Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. with a First Communion group in Livingstone in 1952.
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with Fr. Patrick Peyton outside St. Theresa’s Cathedral in Livingstone in 1955.
• Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. with religious sisters.
• Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap. in Livingstone.
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with local religious sisters.
• Capuchin friars with Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. during his visitation to Northern Rhodesia in 1957. The friars include Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap., Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. and Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap.
• Capuchin friars with Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. on the occasion of his silver jubilee in 1959.
• Br. Maurice Buckley OFM Cap. (1918-2003) and Fr. Agnellus O’Neill OFM Cap. at a missionary exhibition in Dublin, c.1960.
• Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, in Sesheke, Zambia, in 1968.
• Capuchin friars with Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. during his visitation to Zambia in 1968. The friars include Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap., Fr. Kenneth Reynolds OFM Cap., Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap., Fr. Brian Browne OFM Cap., and Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap.
• Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. with Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. in 1968.
• Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. with Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap. and Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap. and religious sisters (Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood) in Sesheke in 1968.
• Various scenes of friars at Malengwa during the visitation of Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. in 1968.
• Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. boarding an aircraft in Mongu, Zambia, in 1968.
• Fr. Dermot Lynch OFM Cap. and Fr. Bede Dolly OFM Cap. at the grave of Fr. Connor Brady OFM Cap. (d. 20 Apr. 1993) in Kaoma, in c.2001. It is noted that Fr. Bede Dolly OFM Cap. died on 18 Oct. 2004.

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.

A group of Capuchin friars on a retreat with the Most Rev. James Corboy SJ, Bishop of Monze, in Malengwa. The group includes Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Br. Declan O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Fr. Vianney Holmes OFM Cap., Br. Fergus Buckley OFM Cap., Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap., Fr. Philip Connor OFM Cap., Fr. George O’Connor OFM Cap., Fr. Patrick Lynch OFM Cap., Fr. Bernard Cronin OFM Cap., Br. Xavier Cox OFM Cap. Fr. Conor Brady OFM Cap., Br. Raphael Maliti OFM Cap., and Br. Hugh Davis OFM Cap.

Portrait photograph of Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap. in Zambia.