Report on the Cape Town Mission

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IE CA AMI/1/3/14

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1973 (Creation)

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6 pp; Typescript

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Irish Capuchin Franciscans

(1615-2023)

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Irish Capuchin Archives

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Report by Fr. Didacus McGrath OFM Cap. (1929-2018), Regular Superior, on the Irish Capuchin mission in Cape Town, South Africa. Fr. Didacus notes that ‘thirteen priests and two brothers are responsible for the twenty thousand Catholics in the Cape Town Archdiocese’. The report is divided into the following sections:
• Apostolate
• Vocations
• Finance
• Present debts of the Parish
• Life of the friars
• Needs

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Item 14 - Report on the Cape Town Mission