Church of the Sacred Heart of Bourail
In Bourail, on the western coast of the Great Terre of New Caledonia, the parish of the Sacred Heart was founded in 1870, within the missionary work that the Society of Mary (Marists) began in the archipelago in 1843. It belongs to the Archdiocese of Nouméa and its wooden interior church continues to bring together the faithful almost a century and a half later.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The Catholic mission arrived in New Caledonia on December 20, 1843, when Monsignor Douarre and the first Marist missionaries landed in Balade; from that seed were born the parishes of the interior, including that of the Sacred Heart of Bourail in 1870.
- The Marist Brothers were at the origin of schools in several communes, including Bourail, bringing together evangelization and education in a land of settlers, penates and Kanak communities.
- The commune has a second parish, San Pedro Chanel de Azareu, founded in 1912, which hosts the School of the formation of catechists of the territory, nursery of the local faith.
- In December 2008 Bourail hosted the diocesan closure of the 15th anniversary of the apparitions of Lourdes, a sign of the deep Marian affection of this rural Pacific community.
Sacred Heart of Jesus
The parish of the Sacred Heart of Bourail, born in 1870 of the Marist mission, is one of the historical communities of the interior of New Caledonia: simple wooden church, schools of the Brothers and a Marian devotion that flourished at the 2008 Lourdes Jubilee.
"Sacred Heart of Jesus, queen in the Pacific islands; Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for Bourail.
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