Correspondence of Leandre Fonteinne benedictine Raffaele Martelli arrived in Fremantle

Raffaele Martelli arrived in Fremantle in 1853 and spent the rest of his life in Western Australia where he died in 1880

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European and Colonial Perspectives on the Encounter with the Other in the Experience of a Missionary in Nineteenth-century Western Australia by Federica Verdina & John J Kinder

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Correspondence of Leandre Fonteinne benedictine Raffaele Martelli arrived in FremantleIn 1846, Leandre Fonteinne, a young French monk, formed part of the first Salvado Serra expedition to the site that would become the mission of New Norcia. This remarkable collection of letters from Fonteinne to his former Abbot, Dom Prosper Guranger, at Solesmes, records in fascinating detail life in the nineteenth century Swan River Colony and in France. Fonteinne was not a man of action, rather a fly on the wall, but a fly with a tape recorder. He