Talk:New Norcia, Western Australia

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The Abbey section needs to be rewritten it's almost a petition for sainthood...--210.8.191.97 04:12, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Well Dom Salvado seems to have been a fairly remarkable man... but stuff like "Its saintly founder, like the Baptist of old, lived in the wilderness, leading the same nomadic life as the savages whom he had come to lead out of darkness" is... um... old-fashioned is probably the nicest way of putting it! It has a vaguely 1920s/30s feel to it, I suspect it's a quotation from an old history book (EDIT: it's from a Catholic encyclopaedia: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11005a.htm, and dates to 1910). In any case, the section is clearly not NPOV and would likely be quite offensive to many of the local aborigines. I've never heard any suggestions elsewhere that the local tribes were cannibals...
Unfortunately I don't have any books of local history to work from, or I'd volunteer to do some work on it. I doubt my recollections of a museum visit are quite accurate enough to justify anything.
I'm a bit surprised there's no mention of the miracle that occcured on the site, according to the local Benedictines. Also, does anyone know the name of the local tribe? It would be nice if we could name the particular group that was being evangelised... --Sapphire Wyvern 03:11, 9 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Salvado's name

I'm changing the spelling of Salvado's name in the Abbey section to match that in the history section of the Abbey's website (http://www.newnorcia.wa.edu.au/monastery_history.htm). I trust this will meet with no objections. --Sapphire Wyvern 03:54, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Improvement drive

Big edits to first part. I got a far as the sour dough and got hungry.

Derived from Catholic encyclopedia. ... a category!? Might be a new article in second part, or big deletions. Good page idea. Fred.e 01:51, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

My thought "the monestry chapel has recently been included in the tour", the last time I took tours to NN was 1993/4 and the chapel was generally included there was a couple of exceptions due to ceremonial events. Would this article by chance be the result of a broucher/web page. Gnangarra 15:19, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Nice work on images. Have seen my idea for an Barnstar? They were a bit funny about people going into chapel when I have been there. Fred.e 17:50, 22 December 2006 (UTC)