Honoré Laval
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Honoré Laval, SS.CC., was a French Catholic priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a religious institute of the Roman Catholic Church, who evangelized the Gambier Islands.
Father Laval
Cathédrale Saint-Michel de Rikitea
Tiripone Mama Taira Putairi
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Tiripone Mama Taira Putairi, SS.CC., was educated by French missionaries from birth and became the first indigenous Roman Catholic priest ordained in Eastern Polynesia. He was part of the native royal
Honoré Laval
…transferred Laval to Papeete, Tahiti and named him his pro-vicar, later making him Vice Provincial. Around the 1870s, Laval collobrated with Father Tiripone Mama Taira Putairi, the first indigenous Mangarevan ordained a Catholic priest, to write a traditional history of Mangareva. The work titled E atoga no te ao eteni no…
Ruins of the Re'e Seminary College on Aukena, one of the earliest institutions of higher learning in French Polynesia