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First missionaries to Oceania

Fourvière, is the cradle of the Oceania mission, a mission that the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fourvière in Leithfield, New Zealand is set to continue.

Bishop Jean Baptist Pompallier

In October 1836, Bishop Pompallier had a novena of Masses offered in the same church before the departure of the first missionaries for Oceania.

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St Pierre Chanel

On the last day of the novena of Masses celebrated by Bishop Pompallier, Fr Peter Chanel SM, the future proto-martyr of Oceania, hung a heart-shaped pendant on the Statue of Our Lady containing the names of the departing missionaries writen on a scroll.

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V. Suzanne AuberT

Suzanne Aubert was another missionary to New Zealand whose spiritual home was the sanctuary of Fourvière. Her mother, Clarice, had been diagnosed with cancer in 1845 and was miraculously cured at the shrine of Fourvière.

Euphrasie Barbier

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Françoise Perroton

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