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The story of Suzanne Aubert / Jessie Munro.

By:

Munro, Jessie

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Publication details: Auckland [N.Z.] : Bridget Williams Books, 2009.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 464 p., [48] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781877242427
187724242X

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Contents:

Prologue -- 1. France: the mission, 1838-1859 -- 2. France: childhood and family, 1835-1860 -- 3. France: women and faith, 1789-1860 -- 4. From France to New Zealand, 1860 -- 5. Auckland: new mission recruits, 1861-1863 -- 6. Auckland: the Nazareth Institute, 1863-1869 -- 7. From Auckland to Meeanee, 1869-1872 -- 8. Hawke's Bay: Maori and Pakeha, 1872-1879 -- 9. From Pakipaki to Hiruharama, 1879-1885 -- 10. Hiruharama: the church, 1885-1889 -- 11. Hiruharama: the medicines, 1890-1894 -- 12. Hiruharama: the children, 1891-1898 -- 13. Wellington: the Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion, 1899-1904 -- 14. Wellington: Buckle Street and Island Bay, 1904-1906 -- 15. Wellington: the Home of Compassion, 1906-1907 -- 16. Wellington and Hiruharama, 1904-1907 -- 17. Wellington: the children, 1907-1910 -- 18. Auckland: the children, 1910-1912 -- 19. Rome, 1913-1918 -- 20. Wellington: the hospital, 1919-1926 -- Epilogue -- Author's note.

Summary: "This beautifully written story of a radical nun who founded a religious congregation sold thousands of copies when it won the Book of the Year award in the 1997 Montana Book Awards. Suzanne Aubert grew up in a French provincial family in the mid-nineteenth century. Lyon's Catholic missionary spirit brought her to live with Maori girls in war-anxious 1860s Auckland. She nursed Maori and Pakeha in Hawke's Bay as the settler population swelled. Later, living up the Whanganui River at Jerusalem, she set up New Zealand's home-grown Catholic congregation, published a significant Maori text, broke in a hill farm, manufactured medicines, and gathered babies and children through the family-fracturing years of economic depression. The turn of the century sent her windswept skirts through the streets of the capital city. There she would be a constant sign of political commitment and caring for people 'of all creeds and none' until she died in 1926."--Inside front cover.

Holdings ( 2 )
Title notes ( 4 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Main Collection	Bishopdale Theological College	BX4705.A88 MUN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		A39482132
Main Collection	Te Rau College Gisborne	255.97 MUN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		A40634348

"This book has been commissioned by the Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion (the Sisters of Compassion), and published with the assistance of the Historical Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-454) and index.

"This beautifully written story of a radical nun who founded a religious congregation sold thousands of copies when it won the Book of the Year award in the 1997 Montana Book Awards. Suzanne Aubert grew up in a French provincial family in the mid-nineteenth century. Lyon's Catholic missionary spirit brought her to live with Maori girls in war-anxious 1860s Auckland. She nursed Maori and Pakeha in Hawke's Bay as the settler population swelled. Later, living up the Whanganui River at Jerusalem, she set up New Zealand's home-grown Catholic congregation, published a significant Maori text, broke in a hill farm, manufactured medicines, and gathered babies and children through the family-fracturing years of economic depression. The turn of the century sent her windswept skirts through the streets of the capital city. There she would be a constant sign of political commitment and caring for people 'of all creeds and none' until she died in 1926."--Inside front cover.