Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. (centre) with Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (right) and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (left), probably onboard a ship during their first voyage to Africa in late 1931.
Fr. Timothy Phelim O'Shea OFM Cap. (left) with Fr. Gerard Joyce OFM Cap. in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia.
Bishop Timothy Phelim O'Shea OFM Cap. at a parish council meeting outside the new church in the Mangango Mission in Zambia.
A view of the Loanja mission station, Barotseland. An annotation on the reverse reads 'Back view of the Loanja Station with little oratory in foreground. They were just clearing the brush and scrub away when this was taken'.
Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., (right), Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (seated), Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. (second from left), and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (first on left) in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia. The annotation on the reverse notes that the original image was taken from an album belonging to Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. On the reverse was written: ‘I think this is not a bad piece of architecture for a school master’s son’.
Zonder titelFr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. boarding an aircraft in Mongu, Zambia, at the conclusion of his Provincial Visitation.
An image of the mission car in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, in 1941.
An image of local chiefs in Sesheke in Northern Rhodesia.
The blessing of a church in the 'leper compound' in Mangango in Zambia.
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’.