Image / Children praying for a martyred missionary father, New Caledonia, ca.1900-1930

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Title: Children praying for a martyred missionary father, New Caledonia, ca.1900-1930
Creator: Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: 1900/1930
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description: La Frere Coadjuteur Blaise Marmoiton y fut tue (1847). Deux fois chasses, les Peres revinrent." ("The Brother Coadjuteur Blaise Marmoiton was killed in 1847. Twice chased away, the Fathers returned.") The postcard shows an artistic representation of a martyred missionary father lying on the ground and two indigenous children praying for him.
The postcard was issued by the "Missions Maristes de Nouvelle-Caledonie," a Catholic missions agency. The back of the postcard is blank and contains printed information from the publisher: "Sous-Procure des Missions - 6, Rue de Bagneux, Paris-VIe.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9.5 x 14 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-m13116 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-010-0000-0029
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m13116
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-010-0000-0029.jpg
Subject: Missionary work
Religious practice
Children
Group portraits
Time Period: 1900/1930
Place: New Caledonia
Oceania
Source: YDS/RG101/010/0000/0029 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Missionary Postcard Collection
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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