The Marsa' Diary Charles Gardner Abbey Press

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The Marsa' Diary Charles Gardner Abbey PressFrancisco Mars was one of thirty nine Benedictine priests and brothers who were recruited by Bishops Rosendo Salvado and Jos Maria Serra to come to Western Australia in 1849 aboard the Spanish warship Ferrolana to build the monastery at New Norcia. Mars experienced first hand the physical hardships involved in colonising the Victoria Plains and he was a witness to the complicated ecclesiastical turmoil which rocked the early colony. In his Diary, Mars