Raffaele Martelli
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title:
Raffaele Martelli
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Canon Raffaele Martelli was an Italian-Australian priest. He was Toodyay's first Catholic priest. He was a scholarly and gentle man who was much loved by settlers of all faiths. Martelli did not keep a diary, but his personality and humour shines through his regular correspondence with his friend Bishop Rosendo Salvado of New Norcia. His letters from Toodyay reveal the day-to-day travails of a priest who started out with no house or church. He had to rely on the goodwill of his parishioners for
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First Catholic priest of Toodyay, Western Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaele_Martelli
date created:
2015-09-14T07:36:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T03:07:04Z
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