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… in the beginning
Sancta Maria - Lake Mollyalup
In 1845, after being consecrated Bishop of Perth in Rome, the
controversial Dr Brady recruited a number of missionaries from France,
England, Italy and Ireland to assist in his new See. Among these were
three priests (Frs Thevaux, Thierse and Bouchet) and two brothers (Brs
Theodore and Vincent) of the French Order of the Missionaries of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary. It was intended that they should establish
the Vicariate of King George Sound, Albany, and establish a mission to
some of the two million natives Bishop Brady had claimed lived within
the new diocese. One of the priests, Fr Bouchet, became ill and
demented on the passage between Cape Town and Fremantle and died about
a fortnight after reaching Perth.
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