Given the anniversary of the first Mass, here are a few items from the archive relevant to this event.
Bishop Pompallier wrote an account of the early history of the Church in Oceania. Here is the page that deals with his arrival and the first Mass.
In the Archives we have Bishop Pompallier’s ‘missionary altar’
Here is one of the books that belonged to Thomas Poynton, ‘the Irish timber merchant’ mentioned in Pompallier’s narrative.
susan Meys says
Enjoyed that historic account