They Call Me Father: Memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola (The Pioneers of British Columbia) - Softcover

Margaret Whitehead

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774803967 ISBN 13: 9780774803960

Publisher: UBC Press, 1988

Synopsis

In 1857, the French Roman Catholic religious order, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, began permanent missionary work among the Native peoples of British Columbia. The memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola, a Corsican-born Oblate who arrived in the province in 1880, reveal the complexity of the work carried out by the ordinary missionary priests.

 

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Review:

Recommended to anyone interested in the history of the Roman Catholic church's missionary activities in British Columbia or in the cultural changes experienced by the native people around the turn of the century. Author: Ron Welwood Source: BC Historical News

Diligent research provides some stimulating reflections on what the great Belgian priest Pierre Charles called missiology, and Whitehead's comparison of Jesuit mission methodology in the Pacific Northwest with that of the Oblates is of special interest. Author: Wilfred P. Schoenberg, SJ, Columbia

These recollections provide a basis for comparison of the ordinary and the exceptional pioneer Oblate missionary. Author: Jacqueline Gresco Source: BC Studies

From the Author:

Margaret Whitehead is a professor in the History Department at the University of Victoria.

About this edition

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0774803967
• ISBN 13: 9780774803960
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222