The blessing of a church in the 'leper compound' in Mangango in Zambia.
A collection of prints of local Christians mainly associated with the missionary work of the Irish Capuchin friars in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). Most of the prints are not captioned. The file includes prints collected for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual' and 'The Father Mathew Record'. The captioned photographs include:
• ‘Peter: a cook boy – on right in picture, a Catholic. Kinabini – our kitchen boy [and] on left, a catechumen. These are the 2 boys who came with us from Mankoya to help us to start our mission here’.
• Holy Cross mission, Mekading, Basutoland (later Lesotho).
• ‘Local smoking women’ probably in Basutoland.
• Church-goers at Quachas Nek, Basutoland.
• ‘Our Well’ showing local children beside a primitive water well.
• Portrait photograph showing ‘an African Witchdoctor’.
• ‘Mother teaching children to balance baskets on their heads’.
• ‘Paddling by Canoe to their village during the rainy season’.
• ‘Making bricks at the Sancta Maria Mission in Lukulu’.
• A local woman preparing an evening meal.
• Leprosy victims and disabled children.
• ‘A leper patient in Mangango, blind and crippled known as the “Joker”’.
• Pounding maize.
Date: 1843
Author: Rev. J. Milner (1752-1826)
Publisher: Richardson and son for the Catholic Book Society, Derby
Full title: 'Letters to a Prebendary: Being an Answer to Reflections on Popery by the Rev. J. Sturges. With Remarks on the Opposition of Hoadlyism to the Doctrines of the Church of England'.
Language: English
Date: 1844
Author: Giuseppe Baldeschi
Publisher: Roma: Col Tipi Di G. Battista Zampi
Full title: 'Esposizione delle sacre cerimonie della messa privata e di alcuni quesiti concernenti la medesima edizione corretta, accresciuta delle citazioni della rubrica e corredata di molti decreti della Sac. Congreg. De’Riti ec. dal S.D.M. Giuseppe Baldeschi'.
Genre/Format: Liturgies
Date: 1877
Author: Fr. Gabriel De Varceno OSFC
Publisher: Augustae Taurinorum [Turin], Marietti, Typographus Pontificius et Archiep.
Full title: 'Compendium theologiae moralis ex opere morali Scavini, Gury et Charmes. Tomus II. 5th edition'.
Language: Latin
Series: Part of a two-volume publication
Founded by Edmund Finn in 1767, this newspaper was published in Kilkenny twice weekly (on Wednesdays and Saturdays). It also included local news from surrounding counties including Carlow, Kildare, Tipperary, and Waterford. Following the death of her husband in 1777, Catherine Finn took over the running of the paper. It was subsequently published as the 'Leinster Journal' (1801-1830), and the 'Kilkenny Journal and Leinster Commercial and Literary Advertiser' (1832-1922). The file includes the following editions:
1782
30 Mar. 1782 (Vol. XVI, No. 27)
10 Apr. 1782 (Vol. XVI, No. 30)
1789
7 Jan. 1789 (Vol. XXIII, No. 3)-12 Dec. 1789 (Vol. XXIII, No. 100)
1792
21 Jan. 1792 (Vol. XXVI, No. 7)
28 Mar. 1792 (Vol. XXVI, No. 26)
31 Mar. 1792 (Vol. XXVI, No. 27)
6 June 1792 (Vol. XXVI, No. 46)
9 June 1792 (Vol. XXVI, No. 47)
20 June 1792 (Vol. XXVI, No. 50)
14 July 1792 (Vol. XXVI, No. 57)
18 July 1792 (Vol. XXVI, No. 58)
8 Aug. 1792 (Vol. XXVI, No. 64)
11 Aug. 1792 (Vol. XXVI, No. 65)
1794
17 Dec. 1794 (Vol. XXVI, No. 102)
1796
13 Jan. 1796 (Vol. XXX, No. 5)-14 Dec. 1796 (Vol. XXX, No. 101)
1799
19 June 1799 (Vol. XXXIII, No. 41)
*Both the 1789 and 1796 runs are largely complete. Most of the editions in these years are bound together with cotton twine.
The file contains the following edition of this twice-weekly newspaper published by Francis Counihan at offices in Limerick and Clare: 29 May 1867 (Vol. XVI, No. 1,482). The title page is annotated: ‘Mr. John Maher, 89 North Brunswick Street, Dublin’.
Report on the celebrations for the feast of St. Francis in the Capuchin Friary in Kilkenny. Includes extracts from the sermon preached by Fr. Ferdinand Glenny OFM Cap.
The edition carries a report on preparations for the forthcoming tercentenary celebrations of the arrival of the Capuchin Order in Kilkenny.
The file contains the following edition of this local newspaper: 23 Oct. 1948 (Vol. 55, No. 43). The edition carries reports on the celebrations of the tercentenary of the arrival of the Capuchin Order in Kilkenny including a sermon preached by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. on the history of the Capuchins in the city. The celebrations were attended by the Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, Fr. Bonaventure McCafferty OFM Cap., Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap., F.J. McGeary, editor of the Irish Independent and Mr. T.F. De Loughrey, Mayor of Kilkenny.