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Copies of ‘Our Pact: Newsletters of the Damietta Peace Initiative’ from June 2010 (Vol. 3, No. 6) to Aug. 2010 (Vol. 3, No. 7). The latter issue refers to the death of Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap., the founder of the Damietta Initiative.

Information fliers giving news of Irish Capuchin missionaries in Zambia. Includes reports from Br. Xavier Cox OFM Cap., Fr. Seán Cahill OFM Cap., and Br. Hugh Davis OFM Cap. With statistics and personnel information re friars in the Diocese of Livingstone and in the Cape Province, South Africa.

Information fliers giving the names of the Irish Capuchin friars in the Livingstone Diocese, Zambia, and in the Cape Province, South Africa.

Financial statements for the African missions founded by the Irish Capuchin friars. The file includes:
• Note re income derived from masses in the Livingstone (Northern Rhodesia) and in the Cape Town (South Africa) missions from 1931-4.
• Statement of income and expenditure for the Livingstone and Cape Town missions submitted to the Provincial Minister and Defintiory, 17 Jan. 1935.
• Statement of income and expenditure for the Victoria Falls Prefecture compiled by Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Prefect Apostolic, and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. 15 May 1937.
• Financial account for the Victoria Falls Mission from July 1947 to July 1948.

File relating to the procedures for applications for temporary and permanent residency permits in South Africa. The file includes copy correspondence from the Most Rev. John T. Dunkin, Bishop of Louis Trichardt-Tzaneen, and circulars from the South African Catholic Bishops’ Conference to the Major Religious Superiors and Local Ordinaries. The documents refer to the difficulties encountered by Catholic religious in obtaining permits to work in Apartheid-era South Africa. One of the circulars affirms that ‘if asked, state that you are to minister to Whites … in such and such an area. It is recommended that you do NOT state that you are coming to minister to Blacks’.

Copybook containing notes by Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, for his visitation to the Capuchin missions in Northern Rhodesia and in South Africa. The volume includes notes re meetings with regular superiors, individual friars, horariums, local customs, school and church constructions, baptisms, and other aspects of general missionary work.

Report (statistical, financial, personnel) on the canonical visitation of the Cape Province Mission, South Africa, by Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. (1923-2004), Provincial Minister, in May 1968. The report originally included an account of the Livingstone mission, but that section is missing. The report on missionary work in the Archdiocese of Cape Town is divided into the following sections:

1. Parish of Belgravia (Coloured)
2. Parish of Athlone (Coloured)
3. Parish of Langa (African parish)
4. Bridgetown Parish (Coloured)
5. Parow (Mixed: European and Coloured)
   The file includes memorandums titled ‘observations’ and ‘points for discussion’. 2 copies.

Copy report on the Victoria Falls Prefecture, Northern Rhodesia, by Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Prefect Apostolic, for Fr. Donatus von Welle OFM Cap., Minister General. With a copy cover letter outlining the general progress of the mission under the following headings:
I. General Statistics
Population: 380,000; Catholics: 524; Catechumens: 1,929.
II. Personnel
III. Stations
IV. Schools
The report encloses statistical forms re the personnel of both the Victoria Falls Mission and the Cape Town Vicariate in South Africa. The appendix includes a section titled: ‘Report on the Capuchin Quasi-Parishes in the Cape Town Vicariate’. The Victoria Falls mission stations are listed in the statistical form as: Livingstone; Sichili; Sancta Maria; Mankoya.

Report of the Canonical Visitation in South Africa by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, St. Bonaventure’s Friary, Cork. With a copy cover letter addressed to Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap., Minister General. The report on missionary activity in South Africa is arranged under the following headings:
Introduction and History of the Mission
Athlone: Parish of St. Mary of the Angels
a. Spiritual Matters and Horarium
b. Material Matters – Friary, Church and Schools
c. Financial Matters
Langa: Saint Louis Mission Station and Church of St. Anthony of Padua
a. Spiritual Matters
b. Material Matters – Church and Schools
c. Financial Matters
Welcome Estate: St. Therese Catholic Mission
a. Spiritual Matters
b. Material Matters
Parow: Church of the Immaculate Conception
a. Spiritual Matters
b. Material Matters – Church and Schools
c. Financial Matters
Matroosfontein
a. Spiritual Matters
b. Material Matters
c. Financial Matters
Conclusion
The report includes statistical forms re the personnel of the Cape Town mission. There is a synopsis of Fr. O’Mahony’s interview with Bishop John Colburn Garner (1907-1993), Vicar Apostolic of Pretoria, re the prospects of developing the Capuchin Mission in the Cape Province.

Copy confirmation by Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, of the elections of Fr. Didacus McGrath OFM Cap. as regular superior, and Fr. Bartholomew Prendiville OFM Cap. and Fr. Athanasius (Noel) Winston OFM Cap. as councillors of the Irish Capuchin mission in Cape Town, South Africa.