Pesciaroli Letter 29 January 1844
Translation of Fr. Pesciaroli’s description
published in Annali della Propagatione della Fide, V, VI, 1845: 214-16.
Fr Luigi Pesciaroli at Dunwich, 29 January 1844
Litany of the Holy Coat
Dr. Lang is going to England, Holy Coat ! pray for us !
To bring out both Swiss and Germans, Holy Coat ! pray for us !
Bachmair Letters
Wandering Brook (1944-1973)
Saint Francis Xavier Mission had an unhappy staffing record with the Sisters. It was primarily desgined as an orphanage for mixed descent children under removal orders, which was its major source of revenue and the cause of its eventual demise.
Saint Francis Xavier Mission for ‘half-caste’ children was an initiative of the Perth Archbishop Redmond Prendiville. It opened during World War II, when the Germans were under intensive scrutiny, and was supervised by a Board appointed by the Archbishop. 1 Fr Scherzinger as rector arrived January 1944 and the first staff were three Brothers from Tardun, Paul Müller, Paul Ratajski (1944-48) and Richard Besenfelder and some Sisters from Broome.
Tardun Farm (1931-1980)
The Pallottine St. Joseph’s farm at Tardun in the Geraldton vicariate was modelled on the successful New Norcia idea. It was not initially intended as an Aboriginal mission and only became one in 1948.
The Pallottine St. Joseph’s farm at Tardun in the Geraldton vicariate was modelled on the successful New Norcia idea. It was not initially intended as an Aboriginal mission and only became one in 1948.
Sunday Island Mission (1899-1962)
At the tip of the peninsula on Sunday Island (Iwanyi) Sydney Hadley and Harry Hunter conducted a trepang and pearling station relying on Aboriginal labour and indigenous knowledge of the reefs. They erected this into a private mission in 1899 and Hadley reported running a school with over 20 children. The Chief Protector began to look on this mission more favourably than on the German Catholic mission at Beagle Bay.
Hadley had come to Sunday Island from Forrest River Mission ‘having been injured in one of the attacks on the mission’. 1 St.
Rockhole (1934-1939)
Rockhole was Bishop Raible’s attempt to break out of the mission model and extend the Pallottine presence in the Kimberley. It was very close to Moola Bulla and was completely undermined by the resistance from the Chief Protector of Aborigines.
Lombadina (1911-1975)
Before the German Pallottines took on Lombadina it had a ten-year history as a Filipino/Aboriginal community with a solid core of Bardi people. For many years it was an unfunded outrigger station to Beagle Bay.
La Grange Mission (Bidyadanga) (1924-1985)
This became the first Pallottine mission with a strong role for lay missionaries and an emphasis on inculturation. Only a few German-speaking staff were at this mission. It is now known as Bidyadanga.
