Souvenir booklet for the 50th anniversary of St. Theresa’s Church, Welcome Estate, Cape Province, South Africa. The booklet includes a year-by-year history of the parish church (and adjoining school) and photographic prints of various Capuchin friars who served as parish priests including Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap., Fr. Ronald Grace OFM Cap. (1931-1984), and Fr. Wilfrid Aherne OFM Cap. (1923-2004).
Colourised postcard print of South Mall, the National Monument and Holy Trinity Church in Cork. Printed description on the reverse reads ‘Father Mathew Memorial Church’.
Copy photograph of South Mall in Cork showing the uncompleted Holy Trinity Church in the background (behind Parliament Bridge). The image is possibly a copy of an original glass plate held in the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland.
This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.
An election handbill produced by Patrick McCartan (1878-1963), the Sinn Féin candidate, during the South Armagh by-election which was held on 2 February 1918. The handbill strongly attacks John Redmond’s call for Irish nationalists to support the British war effort.
A small collection of prints relating to the South African mission assembled by Fr. Benjamin O’Connell OFM Cap. (1938-2010) for historical research purposes. The file includes: • The exterior of St. Theresa’s School in the Welcome Estate, Cape Town, South Africa. The annotation reads: ‘This part was built in 1933. Two moveable partitions made it one large room for Mass (3 classrooms). The third room (back part) added to the original 2 classrooms’. • Capuchin friars with Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. on the occasion of his visitation to South Africa in 1957. The friars include Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap., Fr. Damascene McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Raphael Curran OFM Cap., Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. and Fr. Didacus McGrath OFM Cap. • The exterior of Parow Church and Presbytery in Cape Town. • Fr. Raymond Dillane OFM Cap., Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. (1915-2005) and Fr. Bernard Cronin OFM Cap. in the Welcome Estate, Cape Town, in c.1980. • Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. and Br. Kees Thönissen OFM Cap. in the Welcome Estate, Cape Town, in c.1980.
