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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.

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.

Letters to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Ministers, re the appointment of a Vicar Apostolic of Victoria Falls, Northern Rhodesia. The correspondents include Fr. Agatangelo de Langasco OFM Cap., Commissionary General, and Fr. Cuthbert of Chicago OFM Cap., Vice-Secretary General of the Capuchin Missions. The file includes questionnaires, biographies and other documentation (in Latin) re the three candidates: Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Regular Superior, and Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap. Definitor.