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IE IJA MSSN/ZAM/6
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Letters written from Nothern Rhodesia to the Irish Fr Provincial during the year 1948
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- 7 January-22 December 1948 (Creation)
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Letters written from Jesuits in Northern Rhodesia to the Irish Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ.
- Includes a letter from Fr Patrick J O'Brien SJ (one of the two Jesuits sent out to Northern Rhodesia by Irish Fr Provincial) remarking 'The situation here is desperate. There is no other word to describe it. It was already critical when the first appeal was made to the Irish Province. And while Fr Patrick J Walsh SJ and myself were waiting for a boat to come here, 3 fathers died. Since then we have lost a fourth…' (7 January 1948, 2pp).
- Includes a letter from Fr Patrick J O'Brien SJ, PO Box 125, Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia to Fr Provincial Thomas Byrne SJ thanking him for agreeing to send two more Jesuits to the mission (Fr Maurice Dowling SJ & Fr Daniel Shields SJ, although Fr Joseph Gill SJ subsequently went in Fr Shield's place) (7 April 1948, 2pp).
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- Byrne, Thomas, 1904-1978, Jesuit priest (Subject)
- Dowling, Maurice, 1896-1965, Jesuit priest, chaplain and missioner (Subject)
- Walsh, Patrick J, 1911-1975, Jesuit priest and missioner (Subject)
- Gill, Joseph M, 1915-2006, Jesuit priest and missioner (Subject)
- Shields, Daniel J, 1898-1986, Jesuit priest, chaplain and missioner (Subject)
- Zabdyr, Ladislaus, 1890-1968, Jesuit priest and missioner (Subject)
- Chikuni Mission (Subject)
- O'Brien, Patrick JT, 1910-1991, Jesuit priest (Subject)
- Irish Jesuit Mission to Zambia, 1946-1969 (Subject)