On Christmas Eve 1836 Bishop Jean Baptiste along with a group of Marist priests and Marist departed France on a journey to pick up their Western Oceania. Bishop Pompallier,Fr Servant and Br Michellarrived in the Hokianga on the 10th of January 1838.
Last evening 32 pilgrims boarded an Emirates flight further Dubai where we meet two more. Then another flight to Lyon birth place of Bishop Pompallier and a number of our first missionaries. There we meet the other 15 pilgrims. 27 hours to Lyons by aeroplane compared to 12½ months on a ship... perhaps our pilgrims need to toughen up.
I invite you to journey with us each day at this blog as we our ancestors in faith, hope and love in the hope that we will be inspired in our time to be pilgrims of hope.
Meanwhile, to give you a little taste, in a pre-pilgrimage visit some of our pilgrims visited our Diocesan archives and saw some of our archives of Bishop Pompallier...
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| Bishop Pompallier's chalice - which has reminded me I forgot to bring his pectoral cross |
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| His ring - the stone is glass - sold to help keep the mission financially float. |
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| His writing desk which was also sold - but some found it in a second hand store, bought it and gave it to the Diocese |
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