Church Centenary
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In The Marquesas Islands
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, Dec. 18.
THE centenary of the establishment of the Roman Catholic Church in the Marquesas Islands was celebrated in the Cathedral Church of the Vicaire Apostolique, at Atuona, Hiva-oa, on November 20.
Several hundreds of islanders were transported from distant communities by the schooners “Denise” and “Tere Ora”, to Atuona.
The Roman Catholic Mission in the South Pacific was established at Man gareva, Gambier Islands, in 1834, by Pere Laval, Pere Caret and Frere Col omban, and it was from that centre that the church was extended to the other islands of Central Polynesia, in 1838, to the Marquesas Islands.