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File relating to an abortive attempt to establish an Irish Capuchin missionary presence in the Cape Colony, South Africa. In 1903, Bishop Hugh McSherry (1852-1940), Vicar Apostolic of the Cape of Good Hope (Eastern District), invited the Irish Capuchins to establish missionary foundations in his Vicariate. The large missionary area offered to the friars comprised the civil divisions of Albert, Aliwal North, Herschel and Barclay East collectively known as the Gariep (later Aliwal) territory. The file includes:
• Ecclesiastical return of the numbers of missions and Catholics in the Eastern Vicariate. 30 June 1903.
• Correspondence between Bishop Hugh McSherry and Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister.
• Draft report of Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC on his visit to Port Elizabeth to view the proposed territory in March 1904.
• Draft letters to the Capuchin Minister General re the proposed mission.
• Draft memoranda of agreement for the proposed mission stations and properties to be held by the Irish Capuchins in the Vicariate.
• Colour trace map of the Eastern Vicariate showing the locations of the proposed Capuchin mission stations.
Other correspondents include: W.H. Butler, J. Commins, Fr. Lewis B. Gately, Fr. J.J. O’Reilly, St. Mary’s, Cape Town, and Fr. Bernard Christen of Andermatt OSFC, Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscans. On 13 July 1903, Bishop McSherry wrote: ‘I fear it would be practically impossible for me in a letter to convey to you any fair idea of the state of things in this country. Everything here is quite different to what it is at home – climate, season, habits and customs of the people, conditions of travelling, the ways of the natives – everything’. Later, the Bishop explained that the ‘mission district is 175 miles in its greatest length and 75 miles in its greatest width. It contains the important towns of Ailwal and Burghersdorp and the following smaller ones, Jamestown and Barclay East. … There are no Catholic schools in the district. The climate is about the best in South Africa or in the world’. (4 Jan. 1904).

Photographic album of Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (1902-1983). The album contains partially-captioned black and white prints mainly relating to Fr. Jarlath’s time as a missionary in Africa. Some personal, family and travel prints are also extant. The captioned photographs include:
• St. Joseph’s Mission, Mankoya, Northern Rhodesia, 1938.
• Holy Cross Convent, Belfast, 1947.
• Half-length portrait of Fr. Jarlath.
• Half-length portrait of Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap.
• Catechumens at Mankoya, Northern Rhodesia, 1939.
• Funeral service at Mankoya, 1939. (The service is celebrated by Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap.).
• Temporary church at the Mankoya mission station, Northern Rhodesia, 1938.
• The nativity crib at Livingstone, 1937, with two religious sisters. This print appears on the front cover of Light and Laugher in Africa (1943). See CA AMI/2/7/3.
• Journey to Mankoya, December 1938.
• Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. at the nativity crib in Livingstone, 1937.
• ‘Fr. Terence and self [Fr. Jarlath]’, United States, 1929. Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. died in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, on 12 Sept. 1947.
• Dead lioness at Mankoya, 1939.
• “Iona”, 1939.
• Sancta Maria barge on the Zambezi River.
• Holy Cross Convent, Sancta Maria mission station.
• Sancta Maria mission station, 1941.
• Zambezi River, 1942
• Rush beach, County Dublin, 1947.
• Fr. Molloy and Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. at Portmarnock, County Dublin, 1947.
• Fr. Fergus and nephew, Rockwell, 1947.
• A view of Table Mountain, Cape Town as seen from Athlone parish.
• Cape Flats as seen from Athlone Church, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Fr. Kelly and Bishop Whelan OMI on board the Dominion Monarch, 1947.
• Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. at the Rock of Cashel, 1947.
• Holy Cross Sisters, Athlone, Cape Town, 1950
• Fr. Jarlath and Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. (1911-1968) in Belfast, Aug. 1947.
• Family group on Lambay Island off North County Dublin, 1947.
• Holy Cross postulants, Belfast, 1947.
• Cape Town Docks, South Africa.
• Fr. Jarlath OFM Cap. at Muckross Abbey, County Kerry, 1947.
• An Aer-Lingus DC-3 at Shannon Airport.
• Fr. Jarlath and Fr. Agathangelus at a gathering for Holy Cross professions in Belfast, Aug. 1947.
• Procession of a statue of Our Lady of Fatima at Sichili mission station, 1949. Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. celebrates the Mass following the procession.
• Fr. Jarlath returns to Africa on board a ship in Dec. 1947.
• Fr. Gerard at Lourdes, 1947.
• A group of members of the Third Order of St. Francis at Athlone, South Africa, 1949.
• Full length portrait of Fr. Agathangelus at Athlone Church, Cape Province, South Africa, 1950.
• Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Br. O’Farrell (possibly a Christian Brother) and Fr. Agathangelus.
• Views of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Province, South Africa, 1950.
• School children at Athlone Church, 1950.
• Coloured teacher at Katima Mulilo, 1949.
• Sister Aneilla Mary and Dr. Barry, Katima Mulilo, 1949.
• Parow parish (South Africa) school girls.
• The dormitory at Parow.
• Local carriers in Barotseland.
• HMS Vanguard at Cape Town Harbour, 1947.
• Views of Betharem near Loudres, 1947.
• View of St. Mary’s Church, Cape Town, South Africa.
• St. Theresa’s School, Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap. in Cape Town, South Africa.
• Dr. Barry’s wedding at Livingstone and at Victoria Falls, 1947.

Photographic album of Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (1902-1983). The album contains un-captioned black and white prints relating to Fr. Jarlath’s time as a missionary in South Africa. The album includes some views of local worship including communion groups and photographs of religious sisters (probably in South Africa). With prints of Athlone Catholic Hall in Cape Town, South Africa, Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. (1911-1968), and the grave stone of Fr. Eustace Burke OFM Cap. (d. 2 Oct. 1949).

The album contains partially captioned prints relating to Fr. Jarlath Gough’s time as a missionary in South Africa. The album includes some views of local worship including communion groups and retreats, and photographs of religious sisters. Some personal, family and travel prints are also extant in the album. The captioned photographs include:
• Athlone Catholic Hall, Cape Town, South Africa.
• A group of Irish Capuchin friars in South Africa, including Fr. Jarlath, Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. and Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap.
• Fr. Jarlath climbing Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Bishop Francis Hennemann SAC, Vicar Apostolic of Cape Town, lying in state. He died on 17 Jan. 1951.
• St Mary’s Cathedral Church, Cape Town, South Africa, 1951.
• Procession to mark the centenary of the building of St. Mary’s Church, Cape Town, South Africa.
• The visit of the 'Irish Plane' merchant ship to Cape Town Harbour in 1953.
• Cape Town Centenary Catholic Congress. Members of the Third Order of St. Francis, Athlone parish, assembling for procession in 1951.
• The visit of the Spanish training vessel, 'Juan Sebastian de Elcano', to Cape Town in Feb. 1954.
• Fr. Dan Monaghan in Cape Town, 1954.
• Holy Cross community, Athlone, 1953.
• Catholic Church, George, Western Cape. ‘The oldest Church in use in South Africa’.
• Our Lady Star of the Sea Shrine, Herald’s Bay Catholic Church, South Africa.
• Holy Cross Convent, George, Western Cape, South Africa.
• Third Order pilgrimages in 1950 and 1951.
• ‘Zulu Warriors’.
• Half-length portrait of Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap.
• Marian year pilgrimage to St. Mary’s Cathedral Church, Cape Town, from Athlone parish, the Welcome Estate and Langa, 1954.
• Holy Cross Sisters and postulants, 1954.
• The Capuchin stand at the vocations’ exhibition, Cape Town, Oct. 1954.
• Forty hours adoration in the parish church in Athlone, Cape Town, 1954.
• ‘Bees and flowers’ child performers, Athlone, 1954.
• The holiday excursion of Parow orphans to Kalk Bay in Jan. 1955. With Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap.
• The Most Rev. Owen McCann, Archbishop of Cape Town, at Langa, 1954.
• Fr. Hugh Murphy OFM Cap. (1919-1990) and Fr. Luke Browne OFM Cap. (1920-2008) at Cape Point in 1953.
• The visit of the USS 'Midway' to Cape Town in Jan. 1955. The prints show Fr. Fay, chaplain, saying mass for the 700 Catholics serving on board.
• Round Tower at Philippi, Cape Province, South Africa.
• Sisters of Charity of St. Paul the Apostle in 1954.
• Interior of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town.

The album contains un-captioned photographic prints relating to Fr. Jarlath Gough’s time as a missionary in South Africa and later, on the island of St. Helena. Includes numerous photographs of Mass and sodality groups associated with Capuchin missionary work in South Africa. The album includes some views of local worship including communion groups, religious pageants and retreats, and photographs of religious sisters and various clerics. Some personal, family and travel prints are also extant in the album including images of ships docked in the Port of Cape Town, a pilgrimage to Lourdes in France, and a trip to Croke Park in Dublin.

External views of the orphanage, the primary and secondary schools and the ‘European School’ in Parow, Cape Town.

Photographic prints of Capuchin friars celebrating the silver jubilee of Fr. Seán Cahill OFM Cap. in Parow, Cape Town, South Africa. The group includes Fr. Marcartan Hyland OFM Cap. (1939-2000), Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Raymond Dillane OFM Cap., and Fr. Flannan Buckley OFM Cap.

Professions at St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone Parish, Cape Town, South Africa. The file includes caption information for some of the photographs compiled by Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Includes images of Fr. Mattew Gormley OFM Cap., Br. Kees Thönissen OFM Cap. and two novices from Holy Trinity Parish, Katima Mulilo, Caprivi Strip.