A Piety Able to Cope

Second Edition 2008

Let us try,

my Reverend Father,

to form our religious

in a style of piety

that leaves the head and the other faculties

able to cope with practical matters

Jean-Baptiste François Pompallier

to Jean-Claude Colin.

1839.

foreword
abbreviations
introduction
chapter one How it all began
chapter two Launching the mission
- excursus A The ius commissionis and the diarchy
chapter three 1837 : 'Towards the fight proposed to us'
chapter four 1838 - 1 : The second wave
chapter five 1838 - 2 : Worlds Apart
- excursus B Money matters
chapter six 1839 - 1 : The separate worlds connect
- excursus C Power encounter and iconoclasm
chapter seven 1839 - 2: Gathering speed
- excursus D Futuna at war!
- excursus E Daily life on Futuna
- excursus F The diary of Peter Chanel and the ‘Analyse’ of Joseph-François Roulleaux-Dubignon
chapter eight 1840-1 Wave after wave
- excursus G The adventures of a little ship
epilogue
bibliography


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