New Norcia is a town in Western Australia, 132 kilometres north of Perth, near the Great Northern Highway. It is situated next to the banks of the Moore River, in the Shire of Victoria Plains. New Nor
New Norcia Benedictine monastery
New Norcia in 1860
New Norcia Hotel
St Ildephonsus' Boys' School
Rosendo Salvado
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Rosendo Salvado Rotea OSB was a Spanish Benedictine monk, missionary, bishop, pianist, composer, author, founder and first abbot of the Territorial Abbey of New Norcia in Western Australia. Salvado in
New Norcia, Western Australia
…mission to the local Yued Aboriginal people was started about 8 kilometres (5 mi) to the north, led by Spanish Benedictine monks Giuseppe Serra and Rosendo Salvado. Within a year the mission was moved to where the town is today, and on 1 March 1847 the foundation stone of the monastery was laid. The place was named…
Statute of Rosendo Salvado, located in his hometown of Tui, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain