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• A place for sharing translations into English of Marist Studies resources.

We have been so overwhelmed with the wealth of material being made available that the indexing system has been changed. In the navigation pane on the left you will now see several pages of contents:

• Girard Contents is the key focus of the site, the translation into English of Lettres reçues d’Océanie the collection of letters from the Marist General Archive in Rome, the critical edition of which Fr Charles Girard SM has made available.
• Clisby Contents is the set of translations by Br Edward Clisby FMS which has been privately published under the title Letters Received from Oceania
• ColinSup Contents is a collection of documents for the study of the generalate of Jean-Claude Colin. Colin is a major recipient of the letters of the missionaries and this collection includes many of his replies to those letters. The name of this comes from the way Colin, as Superior General, used to sign his letters - Colin Sup.
• Keel Contents is the compilation published in 1993 by Fr Edwin Keel SM called a book of texts: for the study of marist spirituality
• Other Contents is the index to other primary historical documents relevant to Marist Studies and to the history of the Catholic Church in Western Oceania.
• Secondary Sources is a response to the request to use this site to enable the online publication of Marist Studies materials.

A Piety Able to Cope by Jan Snijders

We have great delight in hosting the online publication of the following work:

Click on this text to be taken to Jan Snijders work on Jean-Claude Colin and the Marist Missions in Oceania - 2008 edition

Apart from the book only the Table of Contents is open to the general public.

This is continuing publication. On 17 April 2008 Chapter 6 and Excursus C were added. Jan is still writing Chapter 7.

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E-mail Merv Duffy on mervduffy@gmail.com telling me who you are, your connection with this project and what password and username you want

Having an account means that you have access to everyone else's translations of these documents. In return we ask that you make available to us the translations that you make. If you have any difficulty adding text to the Wiki feel free to email your text to mervduffy@gmail.com and I will put it up for you.

See the example page Girard0148 for a proposed format.

Please name documents from "Lettres reçues d’Océanie" as Girard####, i.e. as Girard followed by the document number expressed as four digits. Hence doc 148 is Girard0148.

So, if you want to check if the document you are working on has been translated, just type Girard imediately followed by the appropriate 4 digit number (i.e. with no space between the two) into the search box to the left of this.

If the page does not exist you have the opportunity of creating it and putting your translation there.

The CD of the letters we got from Charley at Suva is already out of date. He has removed a duplicate letter - formerly doc 341 which duplicated doc 414 (new numbering) and hence everything after has been renumbered. Two new doucments have been added docs 1297 and 1307.

Jan 2008 Message from Charles Girard

The editing of all 1364 documents of the Lettres reçues d'Océanie has been completed. There will be nine volumes with the texts, plus a tenth volume of tables and indexes. Volumes 1-9 are complete (though subject to corrections of any errors yet to be found); volume 10 is incomplete.

In the first sub-folder, v1-36-41, the first two files are: 01v1titx (title pages) and 02v1avan Avant-propos (foreword), Sigles et abréviations, Table des matières, Tables des illustrations, Structure du recueil, Critères de choix des textes, Établissement du texte et apparat critique, Utilisation de transcriptions déjà faites. In the other sub¬folders, the first two files are named: 01v2titx (title pages) and 02v2avan (Sigles et abréviations, Table des matiēres, Table des illustrations), 0lv3titx and 02v3avan, etc. The Table des illustrations for each volume lists only those illustrations which appear in that volume; the full list of illustrations appears in vol. 10, x-v20-ap, in folder 0b-avant.

The sub-folders are named: v1-36-41 (vol.1,1836-1841), v2-42-43 (vol. 2,1842-1843), ... v7-50 (vol. 7,1850), etc. The name of each file is the year(s) when the documents were written.

There is a sub-folder x-v10-ap (appendix) which will be volume 10 of the work. Its files are: 0a-v10-t (title pages); 0b-avant (Avant propos, a foreword describing the contents of vol. 10, plus the Table des matiēres and the Table des illustrations, listing all 24 illustrations which appear in the work); 1biblog (Ouvrages cites en note, bibliogra¬phy with abbreviations used in citations); 2departs (Départs des missionnaires, avec les noms de tous les missionnaires partis durant le généralat Colin, dans l'ordre alphabe¬tique, suivi des details sur les dēparts, escales et arrivēes); 3concor (Table de concor¬dance des documents entre l'édition de 1999 et celle de 2009); 4dates (Index des dates); 5bib136-8 (Index des citations bibliques for the years 1836-1838); 7thm36-8 (Index alpha¬bétique des thémes for the years 1836-1838); 8onm36-38 (Index onomastique for the years 1836-1838); 9auteurs (list of authors with documents they wrote); 9b-provenance (list of places from which letters originated).

In their present state, these indexes are still incomplete. Later, if time allows, an Index systématique will be added. The work on volume 10 will hopefully be completed in 2008.

At any time prior to publication, it will be possible to incorporate changes, corrections, etc. You are invited to let me know of any errors or questionable items which you may find - by e-mail at this address: othenin@comcast.net

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