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A view of ‘Brookside’ on Lansdowne Road in Claremont, Cape Province, South Africa. The print shows a building used as a residence by the Irish Capuchin friars.

Report on the prospects of the South African mission by Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. and Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap., St. Mary’s, Cape Town for Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. The report refers to a meeting with Bishop Bernard Cornelius O’Riley, Vicar Apostolic of the Cape of Good Hope, to discuss the areas (Athlone and Parow) which have been offered to the Irish Capuchins. A description of both districts and their populations is given. The financing of the proposed mission is also referred to. The report notes that ‘there is a well-disposed Catholic in Athlone, a Mr. Murphy, who came to the Cape during the Boer War, and settled here’. The report also affirms that ‘the people seem to want us badly in Athlone – there certainly is a hunger for a priest there’.

Cutting from a Kilkenny newspaper referring to a report in 'The Father Mathew Record' on an inspection tour by Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. and Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. for the proposed Irish Capuchin mission in South Africa. See also CA AMI/1/3/1.

Views of Parow parish, Flats District, Cape Town, South Africa. The prints are annotated on the reverse:
‘This is Parow in the Cape Flats. We could build a church and convent in the foreground. … The orphanage is in the distance’.
‘Parow / the ground in front is Vicariate-owned. Building on left is church. The other buildings are the orphanage’.
‘Three of the coloured orphans at the little Oratory, Parow’.
‘Fr. Kelly’s Church in the heart of the Flats. Typical flat country with occasional roads thro it. But he has very few residents in such a place. He is very old now and I expect we shall be asked to take it later. He has his own house and four mission churches attached – all built by his own parishioners’ hands’.

A manuscript map showing the locations of stations and churches founded by Christian (mainly Protestant) denominations in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). A reference key gives the dates of arrival of the various congregations and groups in the country. The map is extant on p. 11 in the volume.

An image titled 'Fr. Kelly’s Church in the heart of the Flats'. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Typical flat country with occasional roads thro it. But he [Fr. Kelly] has very few residents in such a place. He is very old now and I expect we shall be asked to take it later. He has his own house and four mission churches attached – all built by his own parishioners’ hands’.

Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. (centre) with Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (right) and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (left), probably onboard a ship during their first voyage to Africa in late 1931.

Cutting from the Irish Press reporting on the departure of Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. and Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. for Northern Rhodesia.

Studio photographic print of (left to right) Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. and Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. in Ireland before their departure for the African mission.

A view of the Loanja mission station, Barotseland. An annotation on the reverse reads 'Back view of the Loanja Station with little oratory in foreground. They were just clearing the brush and scrub away when this was taken'.