Secondary Sources

For translations of Lettres reçues d’Océanie by Fr Charles Girard SM click here.

For Letters from Oceania collected and translated by Br Edward Clisby FMS click here.

For a book of texts: for the study of marist spirituality compiled by edwin keel sm click here.

Secondary Sources

A place for online publication of the fruits of Marist Studies

• William Jennings - "The Marist Missionary Letters (1838-54)" in The New Zealand Journal of Public History, December 2011

• [ "Brother Missionaries in Early New Zealand" - PDF Download] using Chrome - other browsers may not complete the download

• A Piety Able to Cope by Jan Snijders SM, 2008

• To Be A Marist Retreat talks by Justin Taylor SM, 2007-2008

• Biographical Notes Summary information about some of the early Marists.
• Catholic Missionaries Catholic Missionaries in New Zealand 1838-1870 (includes non-Marists)
• Catholic Mission Stations - an attempt to list who was based where when
• Constitutions Project A linking of the tales in the LRO to the Constitutions of the Society of Mary
• Forum Novum Online edition of the magazine of Marist Studies

Marist Studies Seminar - at Good Shepherd College, Auckland, 5 June 2017

• Br Edward Clisby FMS - A Short History
• Fr Alois Greiler - Marist Spirituality in a Trinitarian Key
• Sr Pat Leamy SMSM - Collaborators in “continuing the mission of Mary in the Church”
• Fr Justin Taylor SM - The Context of the Work of Mary
• Sr Gemma Wilson SM - History of the Marist Sisters

Links to Other Publications on the Internet

• Calder, L. (2009). Une lettre du père Petit-Jean, missionnaire français mariste en Nouvelle-Zélande: Traduction commentée et étude historique (Thesis, Master of Arts (MA)). The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Able to be retrieved from [ https://hdl.handle.net/10289/4269 permalink]

• Harman, Sandy “The Struggle for Success: A Socio-Cultural Perspective on the French Marist Priests and their Māori Mission,1838-1867.” DPhil, Hamilton: Waikato University 2010.

• Donato Kivi's 2018 thesis "Towards a Marian Ecological Spirituality for the Formation and Re-evangelization of the Vanua: The People and the Land of Fiji"

• Giselle Larcombe's thesis on Antoine Garin

• Craig Larkin's A Certain Way - an introduction to Marist Spirituality and Marist History

• Nathan W. Matthews "He Kura Māori, he Kura Hāhi, he Kura Katorika he Kura Motuhake mō te iwi." Hato Paora College: A Model of Māori Catholic education., Otago University PhD thesis, 2006.
• Hélène Serabian's thesis (in French) on Garin's Journal - Le Journal du Père Antoine Garin 1844-1846. Une édition critique présentée avec commentaire, transcription et annotations
• Helen Sturm's PhD thesis Culture, politics, religion and language in the letters of French Roman Catholic missionaries in 1840 New Zealand: An analysis and translation