Excerpt from The Catholic Church in OceaniaIn this holy city I received the dispensations, instructions, and spiritual powers necessary for the Apostolic Vicariate in the Western Pacific Ocean. According to the decision of the Holy See regarding this mission, all that was connected with ecclesiastical and pastoral jurisdiction was concentrated exclusively in the hands of the Vicar Apostolic, and all that concerned the observance of their rule ...
Excerpt from The Catholic Church in Oceania
The early history of peoples and of places has a special interest of its own. Oftentimes, however, owing to the scanty, or, it may be, the unreliable records that are to hand, the historian is not in possession of many of those facts and circumstances which, if of no great intrinsic importance, are nevertheless the key to many a result and feature, self-evident, indeed, in their present and actual e...
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