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New Zealand Tablet, 23 February 1911, Page 353

On Sunday, February 5 (says the Tasmanian Monitor), the Marist Missionary Fathers begin their series of missions throughout the archdiocese, commencing at Gormanstown, and continuing through the parishes in their geographical order. The Rev. Father O’Connell, Superior of the Missions, will be joined in a short time by Fathers Kimbell and McCarthy. It may be interesting to note that the first Mission work of the Marist Fathers in Tasmania began in the year 1878, when the Very Rev. Father Le Menant des Chesnais preached retreats to the clergy and religious at Hobart and Launceston. From June to November of that year he conducted single-handed very successful missions in the Hobart, Launceston, Deloraine, Westbury, Latrobe, Longford and Campbelltown parishes Again in the year 1880 the same Rev. Father conducted retreats for clergy and religious at Hobart and Launceston, and from November of that year till February, 1881, he conducted missions at the following places: Emu Bay Circular Head, Table Cape, Mount Bischoff, Westbury! Richmond, Spring Bay, Hobart, Jerusalem, Brighton, and Green Ponds, This zealous missionary died at Temuka, New Zealand, on February 14 of last year, and was attended in his last moments by the Rev. Father O’Connell, who now comes to follow in the footsteps of his noble predecessor. ■*