Iglesia de Santa Teresa de Luganville
In Luganville, the second city of Vanuatu, the Catholic Church has - in addition to the historic mission of St. Michael - the church of St. Teresa, collected in the cast of temples of the diocese of Port-Vila. It belongs to a Christendom sown by the Marist missionaries, who arrived on the island of Holy Spirit in 1887.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The cast of churches of the diocese of Port-Vila records in Luganville two Catholic temples: Saint- Michel and Saint- Thérèse, so that the city honors both the archangel and the small Carmelite, patron of the missions.
- The Catholic faith came to the Holy Spirit in 1887, when the Marist Fathers founded in Port Olry one of the first three missions of the archipelago; the Marist brother Désiré Ramaix arrived that year and served there until his death in 1932, never returning to France.
- To the north of Luganville, the parish of Port Olry is dedicated to Santa Ana, the mother of the Virgin Mary, and her school also bears the name of the saint: the grandmother of Jesus watches over the children of the coast.
- The mission of the New Herbrids was erected Apostolic prefecture in 1901 and Apostolic Vicariate in 1904, and Paul VI raised it to the diocese of Port-Vila in 1966; all this work was carried out by the Society of Mary, the Marists.
Santa Teresa (Luganville)
In Luganville, along with the mission of St. Michael, the church of St. Teresa recalls that the patron of the missions is watching over the Holy Spirit, evangelized by the Marists since 1887. Near, in Port Olry, Santa Ana - the mother of the Virgin - gives name to the parish and its school.
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