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The Restoration of St Patrick’s Church, Akaroa
The iconic St Patrick’s Church on Rue Lavaud, Akaroa, is to receive a major restoration. The 153 year-old category 1 Historic Church was built in 1864 by Irishman Patrick Joseph Cullen, funded by the Apostle of Canterbury, Fr Jean-Baptiste Chataigner sm, and has served the Catholic community all that time and is still doing so. […]
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Fr Jean-Baptiste Chataigner sm – The ‘Apostle of Canterbury’
Cahtaigner won people over by gentleness and got his own way by tact, rather than by imperious commands.’
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Editor at Large
Escape to historic Akaroa Last year I was in Christchurch on 23 December visiting family when there was a swarm of earthquakes from 4.5 to 6.1 on the Richter scale. Apart from the solidarity I felt with the locals who been living with this stuff for two years, it was not what I wanted in […]