Posts Tagged ‘Peter Chanel’

New church consecrated on Wallis

Tuesday, October 21st, 2014

A new 70-metre long church in Lausikula on the southern tip of Wallis was consecrated by Bishop Ghislain de Rasilly last month. It is hoped that the church will help the territory become a pilgrimage site. The relics of St Peter Chanel, who is the patron saint of Oceania, are preserved on the neighbouring island Read more

Peter Chanel goes to South America

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

A New Zealand priest, Tony O’Connor, is presently doing up a chapel dedicated to Saint Peter Chanel in Paso Real, Venezuela. Saint Peter Chanel might well be the Proto Martyr of Oceania, revered with affection in the Pacific and rightly so. But he also stepped on to the soil of South America when the first Read more