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70 marliox•ess whose very presence VIas an inspiration and a steppini_i:-f3tone to nighel, things. Sacred lie art Girls 1 College w"l1ici1 is both boarding and. clay school has at present 120 pupils and Sacred Heart School adjoining the Convent . roperty t1.as an attendance of 210. This year· ( ·1939) the Sisters took charge of St. Joseph's School, in the North Enc:.. of tlle parish, anu. have at present a roll of 53 pupils. Thus has spread. the seed sovm by the 1i ttle band of pioneer Sisters of ~ercy who arrived in Hokitika in 1878 and g:we the S:)uth Island its fir-sec religious community of women. They sowed the seed, the people tilled the ground, but God gave the increase.
71 CHAPTER V1 . When the Hight Hev. Dr. ran was trans rred in 1 D70 Grahcnfistown, South Africa to the new See of Dunedin, secured a foundation of Dorninic an sters frou Sion Hill, Dublin wi til whose assistance he openeci the first Catholic priuary school in the diocese on Pebruary 20th, 1 1 a school a week later. The education of tile girls of __:une6.in re111ained in cap hands of t[J.ese indust ous nun:3 until ·1897. In the. L:ay of 1 6 iii s Lordship, shop Verdon, was consecrated Bishop of Ltmeclin where he saw the need e ablishin2· an ,.,l,der, the mern'ber•s of i would carry aut visitation of the s poor in their· homes as 1 as in hospitals, woc.lci. t care ox'plwno. th s object in view lle e d to Hev. her Lo ani acl.S :'~enny \'ill a v;as then f"3uper'ioress of the Convent of Ler·cy, Jingl on, .. " ·-~: I'' l'i ::, •. /. and obtained froL1 !1er already lete6. Coumunity a group to lay t!1e foundations af the Order in l~une6.in. 'his i ant Community unLier leade p l,:other 1.:. t.:a r~irby, landed at Port Ciialmers on Sunday, Jannary '17th, 1 897, and were welc or:1ed to ir future home ·Ly IIis Lordship, Bishop Verclon anci_ the priests of the ::a ty. For three days the Sisters were the gue s of the hospitable Dominican Sisters who oesto1.'ted on them evel'Y conce able
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COHGl".?.EGATION OF OUR I,ADY OP Li
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2 TABLE OF CONTENTS page 1. PREFACE
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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 4 1. PUBLICATIONS. 1.
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6 5. PHAf,:PHLJ:TS. Bishop Cleary:
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8 prestige and learning. She died w
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10 from Pope Pius V111 a Rescript o
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12 the siege of Mefeking. The Annal
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14 on his return joul"ney from Euro
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16 However, in the interests of his
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from which it could be exported. 18
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Page 23 and 24: 22 century among the natives, teach
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Page 27 and 28: HOTHER CECILIA MAHER. 26
Page 29 and 30: 28 four years later, and with her o
Page 31 and 32: had taught as well as numbers of no
Page 33 and 34: 32 of the high standard of wo:r'k m
Page 35 and 36: 34 established st. Joseph's Orphana
Page 37 and 38: 36 who so loved the orphans. 1926.
Page 39 and 40: liiother M. 38 G::mzaga and I.lothe
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Page 43 and 44: more spac,ious class-roorr.sbecaJne
Page 45 and 46: 43 is a speciality with the pupils
Page 47 and 48: such as Street Days. 45 ST. Philome
Page 49 and 50: 47 fields. r.rother E. Bernard Redw
Page 51 and 52: 49 within the reach tr1e working cl
Page 53 and 54: 51 five years ago made Reefton' s n
Page 55 and 56: In (1) 1912 the O'Conor Home for th
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Page 63 and 64: 61 beauties tlili Faith, of Scriptu
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Page 67 and 68: 65 building was erected on the site
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Page 75 and 76: 73 a c1aily attendance of 215. this
Page 77 and 78: 75 e there a convent and school, L1
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Page 81 and 82: 79 CH.i\.PTER V11 . COlfCLUGIOJ.Y.
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