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’.
The exterior of St. Theresa’s Church and Friary, Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia.
Photographic print of Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. and Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. at Loanja mission station.
Mission huts at Loanja mission station in Northern Rhodesia.
The altar and sanctuary of St. Theresa’s Church, Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia. The altar was constructed by the father of Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap.
Fr. Fintan Roche at the Loanja mission station in Northern Rhodesia.
Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. and two other Capuchin friars at Loanja mission station in Northern Rhodesia.
A group of local men on Kayenza Bridge at Loanja mission station in Northern Rhodesia. The bridge was constructed by Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap.
Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. (seated on left) with Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., (seated on right), Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea (standing on left) and Fr. Christopher Crowley (standing on right) in Livingstone.