Collection MS 429 - Extracts from correspondence with mission stations at Rotuma

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AU PMB MS 429

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Extracts from correspondence with mission stations at Rotuma

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  • 1846 - 1889 (Creation)

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1 reel; 35mm microfilm

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Typed extracts from correspondence and documents from the Roman Catholic Mission to Fiji, principally:

  • Letter from Fr Verne, first Catholic missionary to Rotuma, 1846 (from Bulletin de la Societe d'Oceanie 12);
  • Early History of the Catholic Church in Oceania by Jean Baptiste Pompallier, Vicar Apostolic of Western Oceania;
  • Circular from Mgr Lamaze to all missionaries of Central and Western Oceania, 1879;
  • L'Histoire de l'Oceanie Centrale by priests of the Vicariat under Mgr Bataillon;
  • Correspondence dated 1872-1874, 1876-1879, 1882, 1889 regarding Catholic-Wesleyan conflict in Rotuma;
  • Full text of letter from Fr Verne describing his visit to Rotuma in 1847 and the establishment of a Catholic mission there;
  • Correspondence regarding the early Catholic mission in Rotuma and the progress of Catholicism there.
    NOTE: see PMB MS 428 for information on an index to this material.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Office, Suva, Fiji

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Access this title at PMB Member Libraries or by contacting the Bureau directly: http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/accessing.php

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