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POMPALLIER

Bishop Pompallier, the first Catholic bishop of Western Oceania, was born in 1801 into a prosperous family involved in the silk industry in Lyons, France. He belongs to an age of evangelical fervour bordering on fairy-tale, and the painter's imagination has had free rein.

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Bishop Pompallier gives lessons in Maori to Governor Hobson's wife
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Last episcopal visit to Kaitaia
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Four friendly chieftains carry Bishop Pompallier across a swamp
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Bishop Pompallier converses with Maori chieftains
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Bishop Pompallier engages in conversation with Henry Williams
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Burning with zeal Pompallier preaches far into the starry night
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During Hone Heke's siege of Kororareke the British ammunition dump blows up
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Travel through the bush is difficult
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To the astonishment of his converts the Bishop levitates in an excess of fervour
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Exhausted missionaries in search of souls
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Shipwreck of a missionary schooner off East Coast with two drowned missionaries going down to Davey's locker
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Marsden rides through the surf with the unruly cattle. The foreshore teems with marine life. 1814
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Great animosity and rivalry spring up between Pompallier and the Anglicans who look with horror on a French and Catholic Bishop! Aka Go Easy on the Hell Fire!
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So much swamp-crossing gives Pompallier feverish fantasies! He dreams he has built himself a ‘flying fox’ and can whizz overhead while the paddlers look at him aghast!
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Trying to impress the New Zealanders by levitating
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Signing of the treaty
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Going aboard the French ship l’Heroine
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Go easy on the hell-fire!
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Arguing with Henry Williams
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Still a little too much hell-fire!
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Various missionary activities
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A letter to those at home in France
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Six ways for a Bishop to go ashore
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Getting one’s bearings
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