Transcript of Fr. Ronan Herlihy’s oral account of his missionary work in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). The file was compiled as part of Dr. Charles Flynn’s resources for the study of mission history at Maynooth University. This project was funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Irish Capuchin Archives holds a digital copy of this file.
Booklet containing the recollections of Fr. Michael Murphy OFM Cap. particularly in relation to his role in establishing Namushakende Parish Church in the Diocese of Mongu, Zambia. Reference is also made to his missionary work in Kashembe, Namboata, Nanjuca and Litoya. The photographic print shows a celebration outside St. Gabriel’s Catholic Church in Namushakende on 25 Mar. 2004.
Flier promoting the Irish Capuchin mission in Barotseland. The flier notes that ‘no Catholic mission had ever been established [there] until the Irish Capuchin Fathers accepted the sacred trust from the Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith in 1931’.
Information flier published by the Vocations’ Co-ordinator, Mongu, Western Province, Zambia. The publication includes numerous photographs of young Zambian friars (including one image of postulants with Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister). With an information card on the African missions published by the Capuchin Foreign Missions Office in Dublin.
