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Jean-Claude Colin and the Marist Missions in Oceania

by Jan Snijders

Let us try,

my Reverend Father,

to form our religious

in a style of piety

that leaves the head and the other faculties

able to cope with practical matters

Jean-Baptiste François Pompallier

to Jean-Claude Colin.

1839.

Contents

• foreword
• chapter one How it all began
• chapter two Launching the mission
  • excursus A The 'ius commissionis' and the diarchy
• chapter three 'Towards the fight proposed to us'
• chapter four The second wave
• bibliography
• abbreviations