Clothing and dress - Religious aspects - Christianity

Date: 4 February 1940

Reference: PAColl-7990

Description: Photograph of the National Eucharistic Congress procession, Wellington, taken on 4th February 1940 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.8 x 20.6 cm

Date: 23 Jan 2001

From: Upper Hutt Uniting Parish Millennium Project

By: Bielawski, Lynnette Flora, 1948-

Reference: OHInt-0593/09

Description: Lynne Bielawski talks about her Methodist and Brethren upbringing. Describes religious summer camps in Otaki. Recalls ministers, especially Rev. Ormond Burton, mentioning anecdotes about each one, and their influence on her. Relates family connections with Rangiatea Church. Talks of her faith journeys, Girls' Brigade leadership and support of church people. Discusses parenting and adoption. Relates changes, both in and out of church, in the role of women, of freedom for children, young people's responsibilties. Mentions drug abuse and skinheads. Recalls church picnics, near drownings. Describes suitable clothing and head coverings for church attendance. Interviewer(s) - Elaine Bolitho Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009243: OHC-009244 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). 1.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2972, OHDL-000930. Portrait photograph of Lynnette Bielawski

Date: 1896, 1934

By: University of California, Santa Cruz

Reference: MS-Papers-12678

Description: Collection of papers comprising: - Undated letter from Sister Hobbs to G.F. Saunders in response to his questions about Wiremu Rātana and Rātana Pā. Written on letterhead from the Grand Hotel, Taumarunui. - Note from G.F. Saunders to [Morrell]. Appears to have been sent with Sister Hobb's letter. Written 9 December, 1934 in Wanganui. - One double-sided page from an 1896 publication by James Mackay titled 'Whakaaturanga o nga tikanga o te whakapuraretanga o Hauraki mo te mahinga koura / Narrative of the opening of the Hauraki district for gold mining', pages 31 and 32. Text relates to land claims in the Pakararahi block. Title supplied by Library. Full text of publication by James Mackay, 'Whakaaturanga o nga tikanga o te whakapuraretanga o Hauraki mo te mahinga koura / Narrative of the opening of the Hauraki district for gold mining', available at BIM 1453 and MS-Papers-11946-052 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Papers were found within a bound volume held by the University of California Library, Santa Cruz. The volume, "Ratana, the Maori miracle man: the story of his life, the record of his miracles", was published in 1921 and later acquired by the university library, which was founded in 1965. No other information regarding the custody of the material is available.

Date: 8, 16 Jul 1998 - 08 Jul 1998 - 16 Jul 1998

From: `Seven Circles of Mercy' - Centenary Oral History Project of the Sisters of Mercy, Dunedin

By: Mary Francesca (Sister), 1916-2000

Reference: OHInt-0545/4

Description: Sister M Francesca (formerly Margaret Elizabeth Cavanagh) born Pukemaori, near Tuatapere, Southland. Outlines family background - both parents came from Co Galway, Ireland and married in New Zealand 1908. Discusses: catholic background, childhood; relationship with parents and siblings; discipline; leisure; travelling to Mass in Ford car, later father purchased a Whippet car (1929); social life; catholic publications, with reference to Tablet (Publication); Depression (1930s); career aspirations and career options for women at that time. Recalls entering Sisters of Mercy Convent in 1938. Describes stages of training, Postulant, Novice (white veil), temporary profession and final profession and religious dress worn at different stages of training. Recalls 50th Anniversary celebrations, 1947. Describes duties at Waverly orphanage. Refers to changes after Vatican II (second Vatican Council). Mentions Mother McAuley and explains how her spirit continues to be expressed in the same way but in different works. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007859, OHC-007860-007862 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2073. Photocopies of six b&w photographs; (i) Cavanagh family, ca 1935, L-R; Julie (Mrs Stuart), Agnes (Mrs Beggs), Mollie, Margaret, William (father); (ii) Sister M Francesca, Mayhill Mercy Centre, 1992; (iii) family wedding, Winton, October 1991, L-R; Mollie, Kathleen Beggs, Frank Beggs, Andrea Graham Beggs, Agnes Beggs, Sr M Francesca; (iv) Bill Cavanagh and Sr M Francesca 13 March 1994; (v) January 1995, Sr M Francesca, Julie Schoal (grand niece) and (vi) February 1995 Sr M Francesca, Sam Johnstone and Suzanne Quirk.

Date: 19-26 Oct 1993 - 19 Oct 1993 - 26 Oct 1993

From: Reading, writing and rosaries : Life stories of seven Dominican nuns

By: McAleese, Mary Catherine Laboure (Sister), active 1925-1993

Reference: OHInt-0554/3

Description: Sister Mary Catherine Laboure (formerly Annie McAleese) born Co Antrim, Northern Ireland and came to New Zealand with family at the age of 4 years. Recalls memories of grandmother in Ireland; arrival in Auckland on April 1st 1925; time in Dunedin awaiting farm at Warrington; parents politics; housework; Depression (1930s); change to school at Port Chalmers run by Sisters of St Joseph (`Brown Joes') and differences between Warrington and Port Chalmers schools; expectation to pass proficiency exam, secondary education at St Dominics, with Dominican nuns and importance of Catholicism within the family and at school. Talks about decision to enter convent and reasons for choosing the Dominican Order. Explains liturgical life, Monasticism. Describes dress as a postulant and a typical day as a postulant. Gives an insight into life within the Dominican Order and the regulations and customs that the sisters had to abide by. Refers to Constitution, General Chapter, Papal status and rule of St Augustine. Discusses involvement with Teschemakers College, Oamaru; St Thomas's Boys Academy, Oamaru, St Thomas's Girls' Secondary and St Kevin's College Oamaru. Mentions amalgamation of St Thomas's Girls Secondary and St Kevin's and the changes brought about. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Jacqueline Gallagher Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007330-007333; OHLC-003504-003507 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2465.

Date: 18 Dec 2000

From: Little Company of Mary Oral History Project

By: O'Reilly, May Catherine, 1920-

Reference: OHInt-0601/08

Description: May Catherine O'Reilly (later Sister Mary Carmela) born Townsville, Queensland 1920. Recalls education in Australia and ten years working as a stenographer for an Insurance Company before joining the nursing order of the Little Company of Mary, becoming a postulant in October 1947. Describes training in the Novitiate and commencement of study for nursing training in Lewisham, Sydney after First Profession in 1950. Describes Final Profession in 1953 and the transition of moving into convent with 90 professed sisters, of various ages. Recalls being sent to New Zealand as Provincial Bursar in 1957. Describes the simplicity of record keeping in those days and compares with present day system. Recalls being made Provincial in 1969, being responsible for all the communities in New Zealand, requiring a formal visit once a year. Recalls changes to habit (uniform) towards the end of 1963 and attitude of members to this change. Talks about trip to Rome in 1973 and being elected to Council. Describes duties of Councillor which included trip to Korea and Zimbabwe in 1975. Notes that Sisters still have a hospital and an Aids clinic in Zimbabwe and one mission in Morimbinda. Recalls return to New Zealand in 1985 and outlines sale of Order's hospitals; Christchurch hospital [Calvary] sold ca 1979, Calvary, Wellington sold ca 1987 to Wellcare who didn't make a go of it, then taken over by Wakefield, with capital being invested for LCM. Recalls LCM renting back ground floor of Calvary for two years until the Hospice was built in Mein St, [Newtown] 1990. Discusses the strengths of the Little Company of Mary and the inevitability of the changes. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Ann Trotter Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009404-009405 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. 3 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3044.

Date: 21 Oct 2000

From: Nursing biographies: Interviews by Yvonne Langridge for New Zealand Nursing Education Research Foundation

By: Galvin, Johanna Mary Frances, 1922-2021

Reference: OHInt-0502/2

Description: Sister Johanna Galvin (Sister Loyola) born Hawera 1922. Recalls developing osteomyelitis as a child and spending a long time in hospital. Backgrounds efforts to be accepted for nursing training and refers to Dr William Fogg (later Medical Superintendent at Hutt Hospital), Dr Cairney (later Superintendent at Wellington Hospital) and Dr Doris Gordon. Mentions Japanese prisoners rioting at Featherston. Recalls living at Kilbirnie in Nurses Home, formerly the Exhibition Hostel in 1940 and notes out of class of 44, eleven students got Tuberculosis and two died. Refers to Milary TB. Talks about treatment for TB. Backgrounds decision to become a nun with the Sisters of Compassion. Talks about years at Broken Hill (Australia) and experiences with the children cared for. Describes Circumstantial orphans and study undertaken on children's development. Discusses return from Australia and experience in Geriatric nursing and the various houses run by the Home of Compassion. Backgrounds becoming Chaplain, training at the Hutt Hospital, where she has remained 14 years. Talks about work in the maternity wards and the question of stillbirth and the setting up of the `Stillbirth Support Group' in the Hutt ca 1988, now with 21 branches throughout New Zealand. Mentions Robyn Galyer, Elizabeth Gibb, Sue Nicholson, Val Warwick, Helen Lloyd (a cemetery research officer) and Jock Kilbride, a sexton at Taita. Talks about active life after retirement from Chaplaincy, the Changing Order, changes to the habits (clothing) worn over the years and her award of the Queen Service Medal. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Yvonne Langridge Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012509-012510 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4295.

From: Monkhouse, Thomas Stewart, 1828-1920 :[Sketchbook No. 3.]

Reference: E-396-f-3-015

Description: Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on tracing paper, 200 x 160 (page size)

Date: [ca 2 December 1928]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-152798-F

Description: Frederick Augustus Bennett, circa 2 December, 1928, when he was consecrated as Bilshop of Aotearoa. Photographer unidentified. Published in the New Zealand Freelance magazine, 12 December, 1928. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca1880]

From: Clements, Leon Henry, 1928-2016: Photographs relating to Anglican missions

Reference: 1/2-127104-F

Description: Archbishop Edward White Benson, Bishop of Truro, and Archbishop of Canterbury, circa 1880. Photographer unidentified. Previously incorrectly identified as Bishop John Coleridge Patteson. Identified as Benson by a researcher. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 16 April 1938

From: S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives

Reference: 1/2-043454-F

Description: Reverend Percy Reginald Paris, 16 April 1938, photographed by S P Andrew Ltd. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative