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Children of the sun : the Cork Mission to South America / Leonard O'Brien.

By: O'Brien, Leonard.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dublin : Veritas, 2010Description: 240 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 23 cm. + pbk.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781847301994 (pbk).Subject(s): Cork and Ross South American Mission | Catholic Church. Diocese of Cork and Ross -- Missions -- South America | Missions, Irish -- South America | Peru -- Church history -- 20th century | Ecuador -- Church history -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 266
Contents:
Foreword - Bishop John Buckley -- Introduction -- Cork's first missionary outreach -- The archbishop and the archdeacon -- Journey to the Andes -- Life in the Andes -- Indian achievement in the Andes -- The coast of Peru -- Cork chooses a mission on the coast -- Trujillo: a Spanish colonial city -- The mission begins -- Breaking the news in Cork -- Opposition from Evangelists -- Arrival of the Irish nuns -- The mission gets a 'finished look' -- Life in a shanty town: Housing -- Life in a shanty town: Surviving -- Life in a shanty town: sickness -- 'Invasion' from the Andes -- Correspondence -- Michael Murphy, Defender of the poor -- Building in an earthquake zone -- Baptism: Revered but postponed -- My college and my professor -- Marriage or living together -- Second generation of missionaries -- Theology of liberation -- Feeding the hungry -- The fall of the Inca -- 1975-1990: Years of peace and progress -- Vocations to the religious life -- The mission in crisis -- Cork priests in Chile -- New mission in Ecuador -- Early years in Manta -- Two ocean currents -- A new dawn in Trujillo -- Ecuador: An undertaking completed -- The last years of the mission -- Epilogue: Mass of Thanksgiving in Cork.

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Spanning the twenty-five years of the Cork and Ross mission to South America, Children of the Sun details the new life, culture and challenges the missionaries encountered on their arrival to the infamous Land of the Incas. Beginning in Cork, where the m

Foreword - Bishop John Buckley -- Introduction -- Cork's first missionary outreach -- The archbishop and the archdeacon -- Journey to the Andes -- Life in the Andes -- Indian achievement in the Andes -- The coast of Peru -- Cork chooses a mission on the coast -- Trujillo: a Spanish colonial city -- The mission begins -- Breaking the news in Cork -- Opposition from Evangelists -- Arrival of the Irish nuns -- The mission gets a 'finished look' -- Life in a shanty town: Housing -- Life in a shanty town: Surviving -- Life in a shanty town: sickness -- 'Invasion' from the Andes -- Correspondence -- Michael Murphy, Defender of the poor -- Building in an earthquake zone -- Baptism: Revered but postponed -- My college and my professor -- Marriage or living together -- Second generation of missionaries -- Theology of liberation -- Feeding the hungry -- The fall of the Inca -- 1975-1990: Years of peace and progress -- Vocations to the religious life -- The mission in crisis -- Cork priests in Chile -- New mission in Ecuador -- Early years in Manta -- Two ocean currents -- A new dawn in Trujillo -- Ecuador: An undertaking completed -- The last years of the mission -- Epilogue: Mass of Thanksgiving in Cork.

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