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Calendar of Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and South Africa from 1929-38 giving details of where each friar was stationed and the time spent at each mission station. Includes a clipping of an article on the Irish Capuchin mission in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia, taken from 'The Father Mathew Record'. The extract is extant on pp 42-5 in the volume compiled Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap. (1912-1989).

President Kenneth Kaunda at the opening of the new mission hospital in Sesheke. The group includes Dr. Luke Connors FMDM and Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.

Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with Chief Mukuni of the Toka Leya people in Livingstone, Zambia.

The ordination of Br. David Wahuna OFM Cap. at Mongu, Zambia. The print shows Monsignor Adrian Mung’andu, Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. and Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap.

Fr. Timothy Phelim O'Shea OFM Cap. (kneeling, left), Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. (standing, left), Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. (standing, right) and Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (kneeling, right) in Northern Rhodesia in about 1932.

The first mission station at Loanja, Barotseland. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads ‘cleared and built in virgin bush. Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. in the foreground / Our habit this was'.

(From left) Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale on Victoria Falls Bridge in Northern Rhodesia.

Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Fintan Roche, and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. with locals at the Loanja mission station in Northern Rhodesia.

(From left) Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale and Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. at the Loanja mission station.

Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (right) and Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. (left) meeting Mukwai Makwibi (a tribal leader) at Senanga.