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Cathechesis:
The True Vine
How the Church was first
presented in New Zealand
Bp Pompallier
Fr Catherin Servant
Br Michel Colombon
New Zealand
Fr Peter Chanel
Fr Pierre Bataillon
Br Marie-Nizier Delorme
Br Xavier-Joseph Luzy
Futuna
Wallis
Fr Claude Bret
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legitimately
married at
roomwho
of this
into
a sort of temporary
Sydney.
He had been
living
in New altar,
chapel, erecting
in it my
missionary
Zealand
for following
10 years Saturday, for the first
and on the
time, the blood of Jesus Christ flowed in
this island at the sacrifice of the Mass,
which I celebrated, and which had
probably never before been celebrated in
New Zealand.
Australian
Irish
Totara Point
Motuti
Purakau
Rawene
Pompallier’s
“missionary altar”
Auckland Diocesan Archives
Marian Nee
Archivist
Pompallier Diocesan Centre
Auckland
The True Vine
a visual aid used by Bishop
Pompallier and the Marist
missionaries in the 1840s
It is a sophisticated
presentation of their
understanding of the Church
and shows the emphases they
are communicating in their
mission
Galilee
1841, Instructions for the Work of the Mission,
Jean-Baptiste Pompallier, 42.
Thus J.C. is the founder and king
of His Church and St. Peter and
his successors are the governors
of that same Church. Compare
this with a tribal chief who is
absent: he leaves behind a chief
who leads the people and even
other chiefs in his name.
Caius
Felix I
Sixtus II
Lucius I
Fabian
Pontian
Callistus I
Marcellinus
Eutychian
Dionysius
Stephen
Cornelis
Anterus
Urban I
200
Victor I
Soter
Pius I
Telesphorus
Alexander
Clement
Linus
Zephyrinus
Eleuterus
Anicetus
Hyginus
100 Sixtus I
Evaristus
Cletus
St Peter in Rome
The Trunk of the Vine
300
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St. Pius X (1903-14)
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Leo XII
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Pius VI
Clement XIII
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Innocent XIII
Pius VII
Clement XIV
Benedict XIV
Benedict XIII
1700
A Marist Missionary in New Zealand 1843-1846
by Fr J.A.M. Chouvet, 70-71.
[Part of the account of a debate between Fr Chouvet and Reverend Mr
J.H. Awilson, a missionary of the Anglican Church, at Opotiki, in
October 1844.]
We unrolled in front of the natives a big chart which
has as a title The Tree of the Church. Then we
showed them on this chart the establishment of the
Church by our Lord Jesus Christ, the choice that
the divine master made of Saint Peter as leader or
pope, and the uninterrupted government of this
same Church by the successors of Saint Peter
down to Gregory XVI, who was then reigning.
A Marist Missionary in New Zealand 1843-1846
by Fr J.A.M. Chouvet, 70-71.
We called this tree the ladder of the
Catholics, by means of which they could go
back to Saint Peter, and consequently, to
Jesus Christ, the originator and object of
our faith. I read out loud the names of all the
popes written on this chart. This reading
charmed the natives who are very fond of
genealogical recitals, and vie with each
other as to who can recite the greatest
number of known ancestors’ names.
A Marist Missionary in New Zealand 1843-1846
by Fr J.A.M. Chouvet, 70-71.
This long list of about two hundred and
fifty Popes was listened to with unfaltering
patience, or rather, with extraordinary
curiosity. The natives had never heard
such a long, and, in their eyes, such a
glorious genealogy, even though it was of
the spiritual order.
Alongside the trunk
Handwritten beside Chalcedoine is 600.
According to Pope St Leo there were
600 bishops at Chalcedon in 451 AD
Handwritten beside Nicée is 318.
The Council of Nicaea in 325 AD was
a gathering of 318 bishops
Councils: Jerusalem
Nicaea
150
Constantinople
Chalcedon
200
Ephesus Constantinople
20 May 1842. Brother Pierre-Marie to Brother Francois. Bay of Islands,
Kororareka. (LO 34)
Despite all the horror these wretches try to inspire
in these poor people, Monsignor and the Fathers
are held in high regard. Everywhere he goes, they
flock to him in crowds; the word Epikopo is held in
veneration throughout Oceania.
Councils: Jerusalem
Nicaea
Constantinople
Chalcedon
Ephesus Constantinople
The branches of the Vine
Smyrna
St Polycarp
Scythia
St Andrew
High Asia
St Philip
Vivarais
(Languedoc)
St Andeolus
Marseille
St Victor
Athens
St Denis the Areopagite
Antioch
St Theophilus St Ignatius
Mesopotamia
St Bartholomew
Bethany: Lazarus,
Martha, Mary
Asia Minor
(Magdalene)
St John
Jerusalem
St James the Elder
Judea
Holy Innocents
The True Vine
The top branches of the Vine
Mangareva or
Gambier Islands
Western (Oceania)
Eastern (Oceania)
Pompallier’s
Mission Field
1836
The Vicariate
Apostolic
of Western
Oceania
Teaching made clear
of the Roman Catholic Church
which is the
bollard and landing place
of the Faith.
I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Matt 16:19
Kororareka :
1842.
1 November 1843. Brother Emery to Brother
Francois. Bay of Islands. (LO 42)
The Catholic religion
changes a person’s
character, so you can tell
the Catholic natives from
the Protestants simply on
sight. The Protestants look
savage, sad, dour, and
serious, while the Catholics
appear gentle, happy, and
friendly.