2 - Copy Visitation Report on the Cape Province and Northern Rhodesian Missions

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Copy Visitation Report on the Cape Province and Northern Rhodesian Missions

31 pp; Typescript

Copy report by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Definitor, on the canonical visitation of the Irish Capuchin missions in the Cape Province, South Africa, and in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia. The report is divided into the following sections for both respective mission territories:
I. Personnel: ‘which gives a brief account of the Fathers on the mission’.
II. Material Development: ‘which is intended to mark the external development of districts under our charge’.
III. Financial Account: ‘which will indicate the expenses incurred and sources of income’.
IV. Spiritual Development: ‘which will show spiritual growth of districts’.
V. Regular Observance: ‘which will point out the means I have taken to ensure the religious and Franciscan spirit of our missionaries’.
VI. Suggested Ordinances: ‘which will include ordinances which need to be made or emphasised by the Provincial Minister and General Definition’.
A brief history of both the missions in the Cape Province, South Africa, and in Livingstone and Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia, is given in the report.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition