50 Years of Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church

Sylvia Bryan

Description

A month before the date chosen to celebrate the 50th anniversary of our church I was asked to write this book. I asked all those around me for stories and anecdotes but few were forthcoming, so forgive me if my own family features a bit more than it should. I knew a little of the history of the pioneer farming families and the gum digging days, and thought this was a great way to make sure some of that history of the area and the little country church was not lost.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Philosophie et théologie
• Religión
• Catholic
• Christianity
• Church

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris NZ
• Date de parution: 31 janvier 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664107403
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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ISBN: Softcover 978-1-6641-0741-0
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Rev. date: 01/28/2022
New Zealand’s most northerly Catholic church is dedicated to saints Cyril and Methodius, two brothers from Greece who carried the faith to eastern Europe in the 9 th century and are still revered by the people of the place that used to be called Yugoslavia. The district of Waiharara still has a strong Yugoslav presence and catholic faith.
The banner that hangs in the church depicting St. Cyril and Methodius
T he Maori mostly welcomed the newcomers who were predominantly families from the Dalmatia area of Yugoslavia. They had come to New Zealand often with nothing but their strong catholic faith, the clothes they wore, and a burning desire to make a better life for themselves and their families by sheer hard work. To begin with they often lived in jute-sack huts, with cabbage tree trunks as a backing to the fireplace. The cabbage tree is a lily not a tree, so did not burn easily. The jute sacking would swell when it got wet and so made a snug, shower-proof dwelling. And years later when the shanties were left to disintegrate, some of those cabbage tree trunks started to grow again even though they were partly burnt through. On some farm land even now over a hundred years later, you can still find flower plants like freesias that the miners or their wives planted around their huts.