The dual tradition : Irish Catholics and French priests in New Zealand - the West Coast experience, 1865-1910

It is now nearly 140 years since the first Roman Catholic missionaries reached New Zealand. The three French clerics who landed at Hokianga on 10 January 1838 offered their first Mass in the presence of a European congregation of forty or fifty, nearly all of who were either English or Irish. This p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vaney, N. P.
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. History 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8132