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The story of Suzanne Aubert / Jessie Munro.

By:

Munro, Jessie

Publication details: Auckland [N.Z.] : Auckland University Press with Bridget Williams Books, 1996.Description: 464 p., [48] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

1869401557
9781869401559

Subject(s):

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 ( 3 )
Title notes ( 3 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Baumber	John Kinder Theological Library	Baumber (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	J00934108
Main Collection	John Kinder Theological Library	BX4705.A88 MUN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	J00504775
Main Collection	Theology House	DU422 AUB MUN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	A0034699X

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.