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Fr Jean Baptiste Petitjean SM ‘Parish Priest to all New Zealand’
Part 2 of 3 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. In his letter Fr Petitjean recalled his first days as a Marist missionary. “I was then just a young conscript facing his first battle, and now […]
November
Fr Petitjean held over The second part of the series about Fr Jean Baptiste Petitjean will be published in the December MM. Apologies! An MM Blooper! Apologies for an inaccurate caption on page 43 of the October MM. The caption beneath the picture in the left hand column should have read, “Fr John O’Neill SM […]
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. Within a few minutes he was seen to slump to the […]
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