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arches. Similarly shaped windows are located along each side wall. All the windows are multi-paned and have bright red and blue glass in the arch infill, and the windows and french doors nearest the sanctuary also have large panels of green glass. One of the front windows has panes of bright yellow
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On 24 October 1884, the first three Sacred Heart missionaries – Fr Louis Andre
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The building remains substantially intact and is a good example of a late 19th century timber church with decorative Gothic elements and (less commonly) side verandahs. It retains many early fittings and fixtures, including the choir loft, pews, altar, decorative fretwork, the 1930s painted trompe
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Thursday Island, erected in the late 19th century, survives as important evidence of early European missionary activity in the Torres Strait. It also offers important evidence of the development of the island as the hub of the Torres Strait and gateway to New
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Melanesia and Micronesia was divided into the Vicariates of British New Guinea (later Papua), New Britain and Gilbert Islands. Thursday Island was placed under the Vicariate Apostolic of British New Guinea, Fr Louis Andre Navarre being appointed the first Vicar Apostolic and consecrated Bishop.
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Thursday Island. By February 1886 they had erected a small church and a dwelling house. By December 1886, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart mission at Thursday Island comprised three buildings, all constructed by the Italian brothers: a small, unpretentious iron
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Catholic congregation founded in France in the 1860s, and in particular with their founder, Fr Louis Andre Navarre; and with the early work of artist David Sing.
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Thursday Island townscape. The place has a strong and special religious significance with a mainly islander community for cultural and spiritual reasons.
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Navarre devoted the remainder of his life to his work in the Vicariate Apostolic of British New Guinea. Owing to age and ill health he resigned his position in 1908, Father Alain Guynot de Boismenu succeeding him. By the time of his death in January 1912 (at
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Thursday Island was expanded in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1927, Father J Doyle was appointed Parish Priest on Thursday Island. He obtained permission from the Queensland Department of Native Affairs to establish a mission on
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murals on the rear wall of the sanctuary of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, and on the front of the altar. David became a lay missionary at the age of 17, and painted religious works in
Catholic churches at Thursday Island, Port Moresby and
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painted in 1935. There is similar trompe l'oeil work on the front of the altar. Above the altar in the rear wall is a circular window with painted glass. Two doors in the rear wall, one either side of the altar, lead to the vestry at the rear.
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in Italy – the first Australian to be ordained into the Order – and studied art in Paris and Rome. His paintings proved an important source of income for the Carthusians, and were collected by persons as prominent as
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The front elevation faces south-east, and is distinguished by a fibreglass spire – a copy of the original. The centrally located front door, the windows either side of the door, and the window in the
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Federal Hotel), the congregation comprising mostly Filipino pearl-shell fishers (Manila Men). At Christmas the Filipinos came in the hundreds to attend Mass and seek confession.
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Cathedral Church and Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Mother of God, Help of Christians
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1183:Mary Mackillop Memorial Chapel and Museum
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1938:St John the Baptist, Toodyay (1863–1963)
1231:Cathedral of Saint Mary and Saint Joseph
1569:Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Stephen
1475:St Mary Star of the Sea, West Melbourne
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31:Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church
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1732:St Monica's War Memorial Cathedral
1586:Our Lady of Victories, Bowen Hills
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1873:Metropolitan Archdiocese of Perth
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1270:Cathedral of Saint Carthage
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1987:Diocese of Geraldton
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1820:St Brigid's, Stuart
1759:St Joseph's, Cairns
1575:St Stephen's Chapel
1522:Diocese of Ballarat
1378:St Matthew, Windsor
1355:St Michael's, Nowra
1315:St Ignatius, Bourke
1240:Diocese of Bathurst
1224:Diocese of Armidale
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1971:Diocese of Bunbury
1928:St Patrick's, York
1908:St Brigid's, Perth
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