Hawaii History:
(from “History of the Catholic Mission in the Hawaiian Islands” by Father Reginald Yzendoorn, SS.CC., Honolulu Star-Bulletin Ltd., Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, 1927)
(continued from June 4th)
Now since Paao introduced a new religion, it can hardly have been any other but the Roman Catholic religion.
It must be acknowledged that not much had remained of the fruits of Paao’s evangelical labors. Neither could we expect this, since after the priest’s death or departure (one writer says that he returned to his country) fully two centuries rolled by before Christianity was again preached to the natives. It is natural that at his removal the old heathenism, so deeply rooted in the native mind, that even now after nearly a century of evangelization by hundreds of missionaries, it is yet very generally practiced to a certain extent and under cover, should again shoot up luxuriously and overgrow the seedlings of Christianity.
(to be continued tomorrow)
Blessings, pono and pule!
Fr. Brian Guerrini, ss.cc.
Priest
Molokai