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Record of Baptisms at the Loanja Mission

Notebook containing a record of the baptisms at the Loanja mission, Bartoseland, Northern Rhodesia. The record (which includes entries of adult baptisms and references to 'articulo mortis' or 'at the moment of death') was compiled by Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (1897-1980). The entries are listed under local (birth) name, tribe, village, Christian name, date of baptism, minister officiating, date, and in some instances date of death and place of burial. The end pages of the volume also contain miscellaneous notes re baptisms at the mission. With manuscript annotations (in Irish) by Fr. Padraig Ó Cuill OFM Cap. re Fr. Seraphin.

Nesdale, Seraphin, 1897-1980, Capuchin priest

Report of meeting of Regular Superior and Discreets

Report of a meeting of the Regular Superior (Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.) and Discreets at the Maramba Mission in Northern Rhodesia. The report includes a list of friars in the various Irish Capuchin missions in Barotseland.

O’Shea, Timothy Phelim, 1902-1979, Capuchin priest

Report on the Prefecture Apostolic of Victoria Falls

Report on the Prefecture Apostolic of Victoria Falls by Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Prefect Apostolic and Regular Superior.
The report in divided into the following sections:

  1. Initial Progress and History of the Mission
    First bush-stations
    Education
    Prefecture
    Further progress
    War Years, 1939-45
    Mission Policy
  2. Adjoining Territory
  3. Statistical Information arranged under the following headings:
    a. Livingstone
    b. Lealui
    c. Mongu
    d. Population
    e. Tribes
    f. Local governing structures
  4. Protestant Missionary Influence
  5. Government Schools
  6. Attitude of the Colonial and Local Governments
  7. Numbers of Catholics
  8. Expenses
  9. Conversions
  10. Seat of the Ecclesiastical Superior
  11. Number of Mission Stations
  12. Government Subsidies
  13. Missionary Personnel
  14. Prospects for Vocations
  15. Catechists
  16. Foundations of the Sisters of the Holy Cross
  17. Clerical Seminaries
  18. Catholic Schools
  19. Confraternities and Sodalities
    The final section of the report is titled: ‘Mission difficulties summarised’ and outlines the prospects for the future success of missionary work in the Prefecture. An appendix contains a brief report on missionary work in the Eastern Caprivi Strip.

Flynn, Killian, 1905-1972, Capuchin priest

Report on the Livingstone Mission

Report on the Livingstone Mission (Zambia) compiled by Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. for the Irish Capuchin Provincial Chapter. Fr. Theophilus referred to the consecration in February 1975 of Monsignor Adrian Mung’andu (c.1920-2007) as the first locally-born African Bishop of the Diocese of Livingstone. The installation was a landmark as the Diocese ‘ceased to be entrusted to the Capuchin Order’. He also noted that ‘about 90% of the priests working in the Livingstone Diocese are Capuchins’. The report is divided into the following general sections:
(1) Apostolate
(a) Drink
(b) Wrong marriages
(2) Education – primary and post primary schools
(3) Medical
(4) Social work and development
(5) Life of the friars
(6) Vocations and Formation
(7) Katima Mulilo Mission, Caprivi Strip
(8) Still room and need for missionaries in Zambia
Appendix A: Brief report on development by Fr. Martin O’Connell OFM Cap. Development
(a) Pastoral
Appendix B: Extracts from report on 5th annual meeting of South-East African Capuchin Association (SEACA), held at Kasita-Mahenge, Tanzania, 9-11 June 1976. Compiled by Fr. Seán Cahill OFM Cap.
Appendix C: Annual statistics for the Diocese of Livingstone
Appendix D: Personnel list

Murphy, Theophilus, 1928-2006, Capuchin priest

Report on the Capuchin Mission in Zambia

Report on the Irish Capuchin mission in Zambia compiled by Fr. Bruno McKnight OFM Cap., Regular Superior, for the Provincial Chapter. The report is arranged into the following sections:

  1. A spirit of openness
  2. Office in common
  3. Decreasing numbers of missionaries
  4. Provincial Visitation
  5. Preparation for the Chapter
  6. The First Mission Chapter
  7. Withdrawal from some stations
  8. The House of Formation
  9. Pastoral Council
  10. The death of Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.
  11. Conclusion

McKnight, Bruno, 1929-2012, Capuchin priest

List of requirements for missionaries in Africa

Notes by Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. re clothing and supplies which are needed for missionary work in Northern Rhodesia. The file includes several lists outlining the requirements. Fr. Killian notes that Monsignor Bruno Wolnick SJ ‘says we can get help for all of the above articles from the “Peter Claver Society”. Dublin Address: 49 North Great George’s Street’.

Flynn, Killian, 1905-1972, Capuchin priest

Kuomboka

'Kuomboka / a living traditional culture among the Malozi people of Zambia by Likando Kalaluka' (Ndola: National Educational Company of Zambia, 1979).

The Early Capuchins

Booklet on the early history of the Capuchin Franciscan Order written by Fr. Owen O’Sullivan OFM Cap. The text was written for young Zambian postulants in the Order. Printed by the Mission Press (Ndola, Zambia).

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