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 [...]
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 3rd) We have yet another historical proof of the visits by Spaniards to the Hawaiian Islands. On the island of Oahu a stone statue has been found [...]
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 Jun 1st)) "By all the documents that have been examined, it is demonstrated that the discovery [of the Hawaiian Islands] dates from the year 1555 . . . [...]
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 May 31) As the English first entered the Pacific under Drake in September, 1578, when one of the Admiral's three vessels, the Marigold, parted company in a gale [...]
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 May 30th) There is nothing in the traditions concerning Paao and Pili that indicates a Samoan origin. On the contrary the unanimous affirmation of all witnesses to Hawaiian [...]
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 yesterday) This history was told in 1823 by Governor Kuakini at Kailua and by other natives at Honuaula and Puuepa that the memory of the foreign priest is [...]
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 yesterday) A third account states that a number of years after the departure of Manahini and his party seven foreigners arrived at Kearakekua Bay. They came in a [...]
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 May 27th) This Paao, who was believed to be a priest from another country, was said to have built the temple Molokini at Puuepa, North Kohala, where he [...]
Molokai History: (from "Pioneers of the Faith: History of the Catholic Mission in Hawaii (1827-1940)" by Robert Schoofs, SS.CC., Sturgis Printing Company, Inc., Honolulu, HI, 1978) (continued from May 24th) Maunaloa was the first community in the Hoolehua District to have its own school and its own church. The church of St. Vincent Ferrer, favorite [...]
A Reflection by Fr. Brian: When I was a seminarian at the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley, CA and staying at our Sacred Hearts House of Studies in North Berkeley, after my first year of study way back in 1988, I thought to myself that I needed a little break from all of the [...]