Biography (100):
• Father James Dixon was born on 1758
• Ireland
• Educated by a neighbouring parish priest
• moved to Salamanca
• Finished studying in Louvain (1784)
• he went back to the Diocese of Ferns in 1785
• curate to Crossabeg to assist Fr. Redmond Roche in 1794
• Arrested there under the suspicion that he was part of an Irish rebellion.
• Sentenced to death but instead transported for life (16 Jan 1800) to Australia.
• Dixon continued to practice secretly
• 1808 he moved back to Ireland and returned to work at Crossabeg.
• On the 4th of January 1840 Dixon died and was buried in the Crossabeg chapel.
Contribution to Christianity in Australia (100):
• He contributed largely to Christianity in Australia
• He held the first mass
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Dixon helped build community (100):
• Fr. Dixon helped build the catholic community in Australia.
• Fr. Dixon brought all the Christians together and started a colony by:
- preaching the good news,
- performing the first Catholic mass and marriage
• When the governor gave permission to Fr. Dixon to practice Catholicism it started the gathering of Irish Christians who would meet together to celebrate mass
• When governor King stopped the practice of Christianity Dixon kept the community together by organising secret meetings of mass in his basement
• Even after Fr. Dixon was sent back to Ireland he continued to build and preach to a community there.
Fr. Dixons impact on the community (150):
• Fr. Dixon had a big impact on the Catholic community he had created in Australia
• After Fr. Dixon got permission to practice Christianity and perform catholic masses he attracted some Christians
• there were 2086 Irish convicts of which almost all were catholic
• He gathered most of these Catholic
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John Bede Polding- John Bede Polding was born at Liverpool on the 18th of October 1794 and died at Sydney, 16 March 1877. During his life he contributed in many ways to the growth of Catholicism in Australia through many different events. He was the first Catholic Archbishop in Australia, although he was ordained in England. He came to Australia in 1835 ¡¨and at once set to work to organize his vast diocese. He found only three priests in New South Wales and one in Tasmania; these with the three or four Benedictine monks whom he had brought with him constituted the entire force at his disposal. Then, and for many years afterwards, he worked like one of his priests, saying Mass daily in various stations, often in the convict prisons, teaching the Catechism, hearing the confessions of multitudes, and attending the sick and dying. He obtained permission to give retreats in the prison establishments, and between 1836 and 1841 no less than 7000 convicts made at least ten days' retreat under his guidance.¡¨ Because of his good work the authorities began to bring every new shipload of Christian convicts to him, and he assisted all of them personally and attempted to help them before they were sent off to different places throughout Australia, showing his remarkable patience and acceptance for all people. ¡§In 1841 Bishop Polding revisited England and thence went on to Rome to report on his vicariate and petition for the establishment of a hierarchy, which was granted in 1842, the vicar Apostolic becoming first Archbishop of Sydney and Primate of all Australia. During this visit he was sent on a special diplomatic mission to Malta, and in recognition of his success therein was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire and an assistant at the pontifical throne. In 1843 he returned to Sydney, taking with him a band of Christian Brothers, four Passionists, and some Benedictines. His return as archbishop aroused a violent storm among the Church of England party in the colony, but his gentleness and tact disarmed all opponents.¡¨ This displays some of the ways that Polding contributed to the forming of Christianity in Australia during its early stages. He also contributed to the founding of the benedict nuns in Australia. He brought the two founding Nuns, Scholastica Gregory and Magdalen le Clerc, to Australia, where they began Benedictine Monastic life for women on February 2nd, 1849.
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