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New Zealand Tablet, 23 January 1919, Page 32

MOTUEKA’S MARBLE - CHURCH. Tie following extract is from the r Ave Maria, the weekly publication of Notre Dame, Indiana, U.S.A., Having reference to the new marble church at Motueka (Nelson) —It is interesting to * note that the only marble church ,in Australasiaa . beautiful one, now complete—is dedicated to Blessed Chanel, the martyr of Futuna and that the material for it and the wall by which it is surrounded was the gift of two nonCatholics, the owners of marble quarries in the immediate vicinity. -It is easy to know what the feelings of the venerable Archbishop Redwood must have been while dedicating this church to God. Blessed LouisMarie Chanel was the first martyr of Oceanica, and, like the Archbishop, a member of the Marist community.