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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1952Vol. XXII, No. 12

New Mission Magazine

p. 115 · Read in the full issue

A NEW, and attractive, addition i\ to the mission magazines of the *acific has recently been put out rom Maryvale, Hunter’s Hill, Syd icy, by the Marist Fathers.

Called “Harvest,” it covers Marist ictivities in Australia as well as n the Pacific Islands. The maga ;ine is published every two months md in the June issue there is a ong article on Father Leo Lejeune.

Father Lejeune had served 34 r ears as a missionary in Fiji before t was learned in 1935 that he had :ontracted leprosy. So the good n ather went to Makogai, Fiji’s nodel leper settlement, in theory ts a patient but in practice he car ied on his missionary work until lis death just a year ago.