History in Colour: Fr Jakobus Hoendervangers
Among all the Oblates and Dominicans who led the first wave of missionary work in South Africa was a Norbertine priest from the Netherlands. Fr Jakobus Hoendervangers...
History in Colour
History in Colour: Emmanuel Cathedral, Durban
A snapshot from the past, colourised exclusively for The Southern Cross Emmanuel Cathedral in Durban is seen in an undated photo, likely from the first couple of...
History in Colour: Pope Leo XIII
A snapshot from the past, colourised exclusively for The Southern Cross The social teachings of the Catholic Church have a long history, going straight back to the...
History in Colour: Christmas in the Trenches
A snapshot from the past, colourised exclusively for The Southern Cross German soldiers on the Western Front in World War I gather in their trench around a...
History in Colour: Sister Brigid Flanagan
A snapshot from the past, colourised exclusively for The Southern Cross In the Catholic Church of Southern Africa, and indeed worldwide, Holy Family Sister Brigid Flanagan was...
History in Colour: Fr Angelo Roncalli (Pope John XXIII)
Italy entered the war in 1915 on the side of the Allies against Germany and Austria. Fr Roncall — who had been ordained 1904 — was drafted...
History in Colour: SA’s First Black Priests
A snapshot from the past, colourised exclusively for The Southern Cross South Africa’s first four black priests in a photograph first published in 1924. At the back...
History in Colour: First Catholic Church in Johannesburg
A snapshot from the past, colourised exclusively for The Southern Cross This is the first Catholic church in Johannesburg, on the corner of 148 Fox and Smal...
History in Colour: Dorothy Day
US Catholic activist Dorothy Day is seated amid armed policemen during a protest in this still from the documentary film Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day...
History in Colour: Archbishop Denis Hurley
Archbishop Denis Hurley OMI, carrying a large cross, leads an ecumenical group of people past Durban’s Central Post Office during the 1988 Good Friday Procession of the...
