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| FOUNDATION 1732 SCALA, ITALY |  | FOUNDER ST ALPHONSUS LIGUORI |
| HISTORY | ST ALPHONSUS | FOUNDATIONS |
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| HISTORY |
| THE CONGREGATION OF THE MOST HOLY REDEEEMER (REDEMPTORISTS) WAS FOUNDED BY ST. ALPHONSUS LIGUORI, A MAN OF RARE ZEAL IN 1732 IN SCALA, ITALY. ST ALPHONSUS WAS A PREACHER, TEACHER, THEOLOGIAN, MUSICIAN, AND POET BUT MOST OF ALL HE WAS KEEN TO BRING CHRIST’S SAVING GRACE TO THOSE WITH LITTLE OR NO SPIRITUAL HELP. IN HIS AGE THESE WERE THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN THE COUNTRY DISTRICTS AROUND NAPLES BUT HE DREAMED THAT ONE DAY HE MIGHT GO AS FAR AS CHINA AS A MISSIONARY, A DREAM LATER FULFILLED BY HIS CONGREGATION. THE REDEMPTORISTS PARTICULAR APOSTOLATE WAS FROM THE FIRST TO CONDUCT MISSIONS AND IT IS FOR THIS THAT THEY ARE KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE CATHOLIC WORLD. ALTHOUGH FOUNDED IN NAPLES THE ORDER SOON SPREAD ACROSS EUROPE, THEN TO AMERICA, AND TODAY IT IS GROWING IN AFRICA, ASIA, AND SOUTH AMERICA. THE CONGREGATION TODAY HAS A MEMBERSHIP OF AROUND SIX THOUSAND PRIESTS AND BROTHERS. EVERYWHERE THEIR PRIORITY AS REDEMPTORISTS IS FOR THE ABANDONED, THE POWERLESS AND THE OPPRESSED. |
| AUSTRALIAN FOUNDATION |
| BY THE MID 1800's THE REPUTATION OF THE REDEMPTORISTS STOOD SO HIGH THAT SEVERAL APPEALS WERE MADE BY BOTH ARCHBISHOP POLDING AND BISHOP O'QUINN OF BRISBANE. A FOUNDATION WAS ACTUALLY ACCEPTED FOR BRISBANE UNTIL A REQUEST FROM POPE PIUS IX REQUIRED THE SELECTED MEMBERS TO BE SENT ELSEWHERE. IT WAS NOT UNTIL A REQUEST MADE BY BISHOP JAMES MURRAY OF MAITLAND IN 1880 THAT THE REDEMPTORISTS FELT THEY WERE FINALLY ABLE TO RESPOND. IN 1882 THE FIRST GROUP OF REDEMPTORISTS ARRIVED IN AUSTRALIA AND TOOK CHARGE OF THE PARISH OF SINGLETON. IT HAD BEEN AGREED WITH BISHOP MURRAY THAT THIS WOULD ONLY BE A SHORT-TERM POSITION AS THE CARE OF A PARISH WOULD IMPACT ON THE MISSION WORK OF THE ORDER SO IN 1997 THEY HANDED THE PARISH BACK TO DIOCESAN CONTROL AND WITH THE HELP OF BISHOP MURRAY OPENED THEIR FIRST MONASTERY AT MAYFIELD IN NEWCASTLE IN 1887. FROM THAT BEGINNING THE ORDER WAS TO SPREAD TO EVERY STATE IN AUSTRALIA. IN 1927 THE AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FOUNDATIONS WERE CONSTITUTED AS THE PROVINCE OF AUSTRALASIA. IN 1970 NEW ZEALAND BECAME A SEPARATE PROVINCE BUT WAS LATER RE-AMALGAMATED WITH AUSTRALIA, THE PHILIPPINES AND SINGAPORE AS THE PROVINCE OF AUSTRALIA-AETOROA/NEW ZEALAND. |
| FOR INFORMATION ON THE FOLLOWING REDEMPTORIST CONGREGATIONS SEE THEIR INDIVIDUAL PAGES REDEMPTORISTINE NUNS |
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| FOUNDATIONS | |||||
THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF ALL FOUNDATIONS MADE BY THE REDEMPTORISTS IN AUSTRALIA. FOUNDATIONS MADE OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA IN NEW ZEALAND, PHILIPPINES AND SINGAPORE ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS LIST. | |||||
| PROVINCE OF AUSTRALIA - AETOROA / NEW ZEALAND | |||||
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BALLARAT |
BOX HILL |
BRIGHTON |
GALONG |
HOBART | |
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KEW |
KOGARAH |
MAYFIELD |
MIAMI |
NEWCASTLE |
OXFORD PARK |
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PENNANT HILLS |
PENRITH |
PERTH |
SINGLETON |
TOWNSVILLE |
TWEED HEADS |