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.
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 envelope dated 26 Sept. 1856 with annotation on front ‘Father Mathew’s Hair’. The envelope also has notes re a cashbook account endorsed on front. The other items are felt-covered decorative pieces containing small (encased) portions of Fr. Mathew’s hair. The decorative pieces were probably created in the early twentieth century.
Lodgement slip from the Hibernian Bank Limited, to the account of St. Enda’s School for the amount of £2 9d 5s. The item is possibly in the hand of Patrick Pearse. Rough manuscript calculations on the reverse.
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.
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.
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.
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.
