Extracts from correspondence with mission stations at Rotuma
- AU PMB MS 429
- Coleção
- 1846 - 1889
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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