Marist Lives 
Te Aumangea – Perseverance(Comments Off on Te Aumangea – Perseverance)
When I was a seminarian I used to visit an elderly gentleman, ‘Mr Torley’. He was in the Home of Compassion near the end of his life.… More
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Marie Françoise Perroton
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175 years after Marie Françoise Perroton set out from France to be a missionary in the Pacific, the Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary are celebrating this pioneer who started something which became so much greater than herself.… More
Fr Jean Baptiste Petitjean SM ‘Parish Priest to all New Zealand’
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On 11 December 1841, Fr Jean-Baptiste Petitjean wrote to the founder of the Marist order, Fr Jean-Claude Colin, from Kororāreka in The Bay of Islands.… More
Fr Jean Baptiste Petitjean SM
‘Parish Priest to all New Zealand’
Part 1 of 3
It was a quick and peaceful death. On the 21st of September 1876, Father Jean Baptiste Petitjean SM knelt at the altar of St Mary’s Cathedral in Thorndon, Wellington, to pray his evening Office.… More