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Spanish Flavours in the Bush

A correspondent from Tourism Western Australia writes about the monastic town of New Norcia for The Sydney Morning Herald.http://www.smh.com.au/news/western-australia/spanish-flavours-in-the-bush/2005/11/09/1131407687134.html

Tags: architecture, Benedictine, Bishop Fulgentius Torres, Bishop Rosendo Salvado, Gothic Revival, missionary, monastery, monastic town, monasticism, New Norcia, rural, Saint Gertrude, St. Gertrude, St. Gertrude's College, Western Australia

St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Geraldton, Western Australia.

St Francis Xavier Church in Geraldton, Western Australia, designed by Monsignor John Cyril Hawes, has a mixture of Romanesque and Spanish mission style architecture. The first stone was laid in 1916, but the cathedral was not completed until…

The Wolf Letters Website

Will Schaefer’s novel ‘The Wolf Letters’ is a murder-mystery set in England in 1936, but the murders relate to events in the eighth century. An historian investigates. The novel was inspired by the life of the Anglo-Saxon missionary…

Tags: Anglo-Saxon, literature, missionary, novel, Perth, promotion, St Boniface, The Wolf Letters, University of Western Australia, UWA, WA, Western Australia, Will Schaefer, Winfrith

Saint Mary's Anglican Church in the Parish of Swan, Middle Swan, Western Australia

An image of Saint Mary's Anglican Church in Middle Swan between Jane Brook and the Swan River, alongside Swanleigh Hostel. It was built on land originally purchased in 1838 by the WA Missionary Society for a mission and mission chapel.

In 1839…

Saint Mary's Anglican Church, Middle Swan, Western Australia

An image of Saint Mary's Anglican Church in Middle Swan between Jane Brook and the Swan River, alongside Swanleigh Hostel. It was built on land originally purchased in 1838 by the WA Missionary Society for a mission and mission chapel.

In 1839 the…

Lancet Windows, Saint Mary's Anglican Church, Middle Swan, Western Australia

An image of Saint Mary's Anglican Church in Middle Swan. It sits between Jane Brook and the Swan River, and alongside Swanleigh Hostel. It was built on land originally purchased in 1838 by the WA Missionary Society for a mission and mission…

St. Mary's Anglican Church, Middle Swan, Western Australia

An image of Saint Mary's Anglican Church in Middle Swan between Jane Brook and the Swan River, alongside Swanleigh Hostel. It was built on land originally purchased in 1838 by the WA Missionary Society for a mission and mission chapel.

In 1839 the…

St. Mary's Anglican Church in Middle Swan, WA

An image of Saint Mary's Anglican Church in Middle Swan between Jane Brook and the Swan River, alongside Swanleigh Hostel. It was built on land originally purchased in 1838 by the WA Missionary Society for a mission and mission chapel.

In 1839 the…

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