Catholic beginnings in Oceania
Subtitle: Marist missionary perspectives
By: edited by Alois Greiler
Publisher: ATF Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hindmarsh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781921511547
Subjects: Missionaries; Missions; Marist Brothers; Marist Fathers; Marist Missionary Sisters; Catholic Church
Description: "The many Pacific Islands have many founding stories. For the Catholics of Western Oceania, stories go back to the members of the Society of Mary and the man who sent them out as religious: Jean-Claude Colin, who agreed to staff the mission in February 1836. This book expores the relationship of Colin to the Marists, to Jean-Baptiste Pompallier, the first Catholic bishop, and to the pope in Rome. ... This volume, the fruit of international cooperation, focuses on the French presence (religious and political) in the Pacific and on the missionaries who were mostly Marists (religious men and women, and lay people)."--P. [4], cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.