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Visitation of Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A group of Capuchin friars in Livingstone. The group includes Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap., Fr. Ultan Weldon OFM Cap., Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap., Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., and Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. (standing), and (seated, from left to right) Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap., Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. and Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. at Sichili.
Capuchin Friars at Katima Mulilo
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
(Left to right) Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap., Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap., Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap., Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap., and Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap. at the mission station in Katima Mulilo, Caprivi Strip, South West Africa ( now Namibia).
Letters of Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Letters of Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. (1912-1988). The file includes letters from teachers and from the local populace to Fr. Alfred relating to his role as principal at mission schools in Sancta Maria Mission (Lukulu), in Malengwa, and later at Maramba. The file also includes letters pertaining to his role as Regular Superior in Livingstone, to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. The subjects include: the possibility of Irish Capuchins working in the Port Elizabeth Vicariate in South Africa; Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy’s desire to return to Ireland. (25 July 1951); enclosing a list of personnel and statistics for both the South African and Northern Rhodesian missions. (16 Oct. 1951); the construction of churches at the Sancta Maria mission, and at Mankoya, and a friary at Kalabo in Northern Rhodesia. (5 Jan. 1952); developments in Athlone parish, Cape Province. (25 June 1953); the ‘education side’ of the mission in Livingstone. (20 Mar. 1954). The file incudes enclosed letters to Fr. Alfred from the Most Rev. Owen McCann (1907-1994), Archbishop of Cape Town. With a letter from Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap. enclosing a list of Zambian churches with resident Capuchin friars, and the names of the titular feasts associated with each church. Reference is also made to the activities of the following Irish Capuchin missionaries: Fr. Jerome MacQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Anslem Griffin OFM Cap.; Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap.; Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap.
Letters of Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Letters of Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (1902-1979). The correspondents include Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary; Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister., and Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap., General Minister. The subjects include: the progress of the Irish Capuchin mission in Barotseland and Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia; the Silozi catechism; the Loanja station; requests for financial assistance and loans for the Northern Rhodesian mission; missionary activities in Cape Town, South Africa; the recognition of five parishes in the Cape as coming under Irish Capuchin jurisdiction (1946); the Katima Mulilo mission station in the Caprivi Strip (1949); Fr. Phelim’s appointment as Regular Superior of the Victoria Falls Mission; the completion of the church at Langa (1949); the deaths of Fr. Eustace Burke OFM Cap. and Fr. Donatus Aherne OFM Cap. (1949); Educational matters in the missionary territories; the appointment of Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. as Education Secretary General (1949); the need for more missionary sisters (Holy Faith Sisters, Sisters of Mercy, the Irish Sisters of Charity and the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Africa); the opening of the church at the Holy Family Mission, Katima Mulilo. (Mar. 1954); the building of a new convent and girls’ boarding school at Maramba. (July 1953); his proposal to resign as Bishop of Livingstone ‘in line with the gradual Zambianization of the Hierarchy’. (10 Aug. 1969). Reference is also made to the activities of the following Capuchin friars: Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap.; Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap.; Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap.; Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap.; Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap.; Fr. Eltin Daly OFM Cap. The file also includes a manuscript copy of an ‘Approved Prayer for the Conversion of Africa’ and a typescript copy of a ‘Spiritual portrait of Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.’ by Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap. (Livingstone, 1992). 19 pp.
O’Shea, Timothy Phelim, 1902-1979, Capuchin priest
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
File of photographic prints of Capuchin friars (and students) at Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal. One of the prints shows Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., guardian from 1930-7, with students in the community.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An image of a group of Capuchin friars in the front garden of Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal. An annotation on the reverse reads 'Students, Ards'. The group includes Fr. Conrad O'Donovan OFM Cap. and Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap.