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The Mission Changed the Missionary
The following is the text of a speech given by Fr Mervyn Duffy SM at the launch of the book by Peter Tremewan and Giselle Larcombe, entitled Living Among the Northland Māori: Diary of Father Antoine Garin, 1844-1846 (600 pages, Canterbury University Press). As a child, I was a parishioner of St Mary’s Church, Nelson. […]