Marist Fathers - Records [M425-432], 1844-1926

MAV/FM4/737-744
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fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432509

microfilm reels 35 mm

Catholic missionary order working in the Pacific. The first Marist missionaries were sent out from France in December 1836 and started work on Wallis and Fortuna Islands in November 1837

Letters from missionaries to the general administration of the Society of Mary in France. They are mainly from missionaries in Fiji but some also relate to the Solomon Islands and Rotuma. There is a general correspondence from prefects and vicars apostolic, correspondence from other missionaries and reports from the missions. The records are valuable for the information they give on life in the islands and for accounts of the indigenous population. They contain details of the daily activities of the missionaries and the development of their respective stations together with the economic, political and spiritual state of the mission organization

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project handbook. Part 8 : Miscellaneous [M series], Entry 106, p. 53
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M425-432
Microfilm copy of originals held by the Archivio Padri Maristi via Alessandro Poerio 63, Rome 00152, Italy
Refer to the National Library of Australia’s AJCP Portal (https://www.nla.gov.au/content/australian-joint-copying-project) for information on Australian Joint Copying Project reels digitised in 2019/65