Tag Archive for ‘Maori’

The Mission Changed the Missionary

The following is the text of a speech given by Fr Mervyn Duffy SM at the launch of the book by Peter Tremewan and Giselle Larcombe, entitled Living Among the Northland Māori: Diary of Father Antoine Garin, 1844-1846 (600 pages, Canterbury University Press). As a child, I was a parishioner of St Mary’s Church, Nelson. […]

Pā Hohepa’s Dream (2)

Fr Delach said there should never have been any need for the government to have to take steps to improve forcibly Maori living conditions, and much of their tradition and noble customs could have been preserved, and the Māori language perpetuated among them.

Māori and the Marists (3)

Records of a 175 year relationship The MM is grateful to Archifacts, the magazine of the Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ), to Theresa Graham, ARANZ president, and to Ken Scadden, for permission to reprint this article. Ken died on 17 October this year. R.I.P. The principal Māori Missions on the West Coast […]

Māori and the Marists (2)

The MM is grateful to Archifacts, the magazine of the Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ), to Theresa Graham, ARANZ president, and to Ken Scadden, for permission to reprint this article. Lettres Reçues d’Océanie Letters Received from Oceania In 2009 a series of 1,365 letters written in French by the early Marist missionaries […]

Māori and the Marists

The history of the Marists and Māori in New Zealand is woven through the history of Aotearoa/New Zealand like a harakeke leaf in a kete.