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Merv at 02:51, 27 August 2023

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	''In a post-script he asks for prayers for his people - suicides, marital breakups – infanticide, theft – are all problems among them.''		''In a post-script he asks for prayers for his people - suicides, marital breakups – infanticide, theft – are all problems among them.''


			[[Antoine Séon\|Biography and letters of Antoine Séon]]

Merv at 21:04, 17 August 2023

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	''Based on the document sent [[APM]] Z 208.''		''Based on the document sent [[APM]] Z 208.''


			''Translation by ChatGPT''

Merv at 21:02, 17 August 2023

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	;[12]: I ask you, my Reverend Father, for some prayers for my flock. In one part of my station, eleven women committed suicide last year, most of them out of jealousy. In my last journey, the wife of a prominent chief jumped from a tree on the very day I arrived among them, upon learning of the indiscretions of a secret wife of her husband. Being a prominent chief herself, she wants to be the only woman for her husband, and the husband, who cannot save the life of any of the children he had with his wife, has just hanged himself. Fortunately, God did not allow him to take his own life completely. I know a man from my station who has lost wives and children; he is waiting for the death of his last son to take his own life. His neighbour, during my last journey, murdered one of his wives following a rather trivial dispute. I also believe that infanticide is not rare. However, I have only come across one instance where a woman, giving birth to two girls while on the road, buried one of them on the spot. Promiscuity is quite prevalent in certain places; theft is widespread; there are few journeys where something is not lost in this manner, especially tobacco. Whether outside or at my residence, I have been stolen from at least ten times. I must add, however, that my diary, having been recognized as a stolen item in the possession of a Māori, his chiefs flogged him and one of them travelled 18 leagues to return it to me. After two months of deprivation, I was glad to find what I thought was lost forever and to especially conceive some hope of spiritual profit among this poor people.		;[12]: I ask you, my Reverend Father, for some prayers for my flock. In one part of my station, eleven women committed suicide last year, most of them out of jealousy. In my last journey, the wife of a prominent chief jumped from a tree on the very day I arrived among them, upon learning of the indiscretions of a secret wife of her husband. Being a prominent chief herself, she wants to be the only woman for her husband, and the husband, who cannot save the life of any of the children he had with his wife, has just hanged himself. Fortunately, God did not allow him to take his own life completely. I know a man from my station who has lost wives and children; he is waiting for the death of his last son to take his own life. His neighbour, during my last journey, murdered one of his wives following a rather trivial dispute. I also believe that infanticide is not rare. However, I have only come across one instance where a woman, giving birth to two girls while on the road, buried one of them on the spot. Promiscuity is quite prevalent in certain places; theft is widespread; there are few journeys where something is not lost in this manner, especially tobacco. Whether outside or at my residence, I have been stolen from at least ten times. I must add, however, that my diary, having been recognized as a stolen item in the possession of a Māori, his chiefs flogged him and one of them travelled 18 leagues to return it to me. After two months of deprivation, I was glad to find what I thought was lost forever and to especially conceive some hope of spiritual profit among this poor people.


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Merv at 21:01, 17 August 2023

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 ''In a post-script he asks for prayers for his people -  suicides, marital breakups – infanticide, theft – are all problems among them.''

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==28 April 1843 - Father Séon to Father Colin, Matamata==

===Summary===

''Grateful for the visit of Father Forest. His greatest hardship is being on his own. Nearest confrère is a day and a half walk away, through swamps and forests (Father Pèzant). Is having trouble learning to speak Maori. Distances are long – estimates 40 leagues (200 km) from one end to the other of his territory. Hostility of Protestant Maori a problem. Misrepresentation of Catholic beliefs - “Nebuchadnezzar and his statue were Catholics” (!)''

''Has problems with the catechetical texts recently printed for the mission - they are not fitted to their intelligence and taste.''

''In a post-script he asks for prayers for his people - suicides, marital breakups – infanticide, theft – are all problems among them.''