Catholic Beginnings in Oceania

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By Alois Greiler SM

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By Alois Greiler SM

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250 pages

This collection of essays on the beginnings of the Catholic Church in the
South Pacific unites works by acknowledged authorities in the field and
young researchers. All of them open up new subjects and incorporate new
research based on French sources. Among these are valuable essays on women
missionaries, the ecclesiology of the early Marist missionaries, and the Marist
teaching brothers. This collection will be of interest to historians of the Pacific
Islands and of nineteenth-century Catholicism.

David Hilliard, Flinders University, South Australia

The many Pacific Islands have many founding stories. For the Catholics of
Western Oceania, their stories go back to 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 explores the relationship of Colin to the
Marists, to Jean-Baptiste Pompallier, the first Catholic bishop, and to the pope in
Rome. Relationships within this triangle were not always easy.

This book provides a context to the multi-volume collection of missionary letters
edited and published in 2009. 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). It recognises contributions to the origins of Oceania that are little
known outside the Pacific and are sometimes undervalued. These essays offer
a summary of current research and explore some of the critical issues involved.

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Weight 200 kg
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