The Marsa' Diary Charles Gardner - Elizabeth Sellars

- Elizabeth Sellars

Father Robert describes it as a "soul jarring" work that directs us to consider the last 4 things: death

Benedict for over 1

co-founder of New Norcia

Dom Santos Salvado at New Norcia

The Marsa' Diary Charles Gardner - Elizabeth SellarsFrancisco Mars was one of thirty nine Benedictine priests and brothers who were recruited by Bishops Rosendo Salvado and Jos Maria Serra to come to Western Australia in 1849 aboard the Spanish warship Ferrolana to build the monastery at New Norcia. Mars experienced first hand the physical hardships involved in colonising the Victoria Plains and he was a witness to the complicated ecclesiastical turmoil which rocked the early colony. In his Diary, Mars