Letter. 1846.

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Letter. 1846.

Extract from a translation of a letter to Abbot Gueranger giving his impressions of an encounter with Aboriginal prisoners on their way to Rottnest and also the arrival of Bishop Brady's missionaries in Perth.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7031529

Libraries Australia

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Guéranger, Prosper, 1806-1875

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Benedictines

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Benedictines carry on a tradition that stems from the origin of the Christian monastic movement in the third century. St. Benedict (ca. 480-ca. 550) was born at Nursia and educated at Rome. About the year 500, the condition of contemporary society led him to withdraw to a cave at nearby Subiaco where a community gradually grew up around him. In 525 he moved with a small band of monks to Monte Cassino where he remained until his death. It was here (ca. 540) that he drew up his plan f...

Fonteinne, Leandre.

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French priest who accompanied Bishop Brady as one of a group of Catholic missionaries who arrived in Western Australia in 1846. From the description of Letter. 1846. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 222091521 ...