A Piety Able to Cope

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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

  • acknowledgements
  • 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