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CHAPTER 11. THE COMING AND EARLY ACTIVITIES OF THE SISTERS OI' MEHCY 13 It was as a result of the concerted effort of French missionaries and Irish irmnigrants that the Catholic Church was established in New Zealand. In 1838 Monsignor Jean Baptiste Pompallier, newly-named Vicar Apostolic of Wester·n Oceania of which New Zealand then formed a part, landed at Hokianga where he and. his intrepid band of Marists were warmly welcomed by an Irish settler, Thomas Poynton, and vvhence he set for·th determined to roughhew his way and blaze the trail for· his followers. In response to his appeals to Europe, priests trickled into the country and according as these became available, he established mission stations throughout the land. Realising the needs of his growing flock Bishop Pompallier embarked for Rome in 1846, and tvro years later, New Zealand was divided into tvvo dioceses Auckland and V/ellington. Bishop Viard who had been Bishop Pompal1ier' f> coadjutor since 1846, v1as appointed first Bishop of Wellington with the Marist Fathers as his helpers, while Bishop Pompalliel" retained the charge of Aucklancl from which diocese the Marist Fathers were to withdraw in favour of secular clergy, as soon as the diocese was sufficiently staffed with priests.
14 on his return joul"ney from Europe in 181+9, shop Pomp allier called at St. Leo 1 s Convent of b:ercy, Carlow, . Ireland, where he begged for volunteers for his remote sea-girt mis on. Mother Cecilia Uahe1~, then Superior of the Carlow Convent, privately offered hel~self' for the distant mission as did several other members of the Community. ( 1) When it becarne known that Mother Cecilia Laher had volunteered, the whole community in a body besought Bishop Haly, then in c.harge of the diocese, to dissuade her. Though aware of the singular merit of their Superior•, this zealous pastor very pertinently the Sisters how they, themselves, would have got the Pai th, if st. Patrick and St Augustine had remained at· 'home. though he was sorry to part with any He told them, that, them, God's glory demanded the sacrifice. So on August 8th, 1849, Mother Cecilia and seven companions set out from St.Leo's Carl ow, to travel to tbe remote enc,s of the earth there to carl"'Y on the works of Mercy - the amelioration of the spiritual educational and physical needs of the growing population. In Cross", one of New aland's earliest newsprints, we find the following, dated Friday, April 12th 1850: "Shipping Listtt April 9. - 11 0ceania", of Antwerp, 533 tons, Captain 1 • ' 1 Leaves from the Annals" Vol 11. P 591.
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63 necessity ancl llO'Ii/ that tl1e
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M1algamation until ill-health supe1
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