Marist Mission Congress at Kieta
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Kieta in 1937
T>LANS are being discussed in Australia 1 to hold a Eucharistic Congress in the South Seas next year, in which 20,000 native Roman Catholics will take part, to celebrate the centenary of the Marist Mis sions.
The proposal was advanced by the Vicar Apostolic of the Northern Solomons (Bishop Wade) when he was in Melbourne in September.
It is reported that the congress will be at Kieta, on the island of Bougainville, The central office of the Catholic Mis sions, in Melbourne, is organising an Aus tralian pilgrimage to the congress. It will take the form of a mission cruise in the waters of the Mandated Territory and the Solomon Islands, with Kieta as its centre. A liner is being chartered for the pilgrims.