Hundreds attend 2012 Hokianga Hui Aranga

Hundreds of people attended the Hui Aranga which took place this year at the Opononi Area School, on Northland’s Hokianga Harbour.

About 10 Catholic Māori Cultural Clubs from different parts of the North Island gathered for a combined cultural and faith experience involving kapa haka, sport, prayer, kai and time together in competition and catching up on family. Read more

Grave celebration marks 170 years of Mount St cemetery

Two-hundred people gathered at the Mount Street Cemetery to mark the 170th anniversary of the cemetery’s consecration by Bishop Pompallier. Read more

French medal to Pompallier House curator

Kate Martin, the curator of Pompallier House, was awarded the medal of Chevalier dans l’ordre national des Arts et Lettres by the French Ambassador on Wednesday, 31 March in Wellington. Read more

Maori, Marists, the Church

Eighteen Marists attended a Hui with Danny Karatea-Goddard, Maru Karatea-Goddard, Fr Simon Story and Pa Henere Tate, to discuss “Maori, Marists and the Church.” Read more

Marist Lettres from Oceania well received by University of Canterbury

On Thursday, 3 September, 2009, the nine volumes of Lettres were well received by the MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at University of Canterbury. The Lettres are well on their way to becoming the foremost resource in their field.

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Letters received from Oceania

On Thursday 16 April the Province together with the French Embassy in New Zealand and the General Administration and Academics gathered at the National Archives building in Murphy Street, Wellington for the launch of Lettres recues D’Oceanie. This ten volume anthology edited by Fr Charles Girard of the USA Province contains the collection of extant letters from the early Missionaries back to France and Rome. Read more

“as significant to our history as Beaglehole’s Journals of Captain Cook”

Described as a scholarly event of high international significance, a 10-volume work entitled Letters received from Oceania 1836-1854 will be launched at Archives New Zealand, Wellington, on April 16. Read more