In a wonderful spirit of joy, parishioners, religious and clergy of St Joseph’s parish in Dannevirke gathered on the weekend of October 14-15 to salute 125 years since the faith was established in the district by the early settlers in 1898.
Newly ordained Bishop of Palmerston North Bishop John Adams remembered receiving the Apostolic Nuncio’s call with “ a certain mixture of both honour and trepidation”.