Author: KANE, KATHLEEN DUNLOP. Title: The Parish That Wouldn't Die. Chiltern.
Description: First Edition; 4to; pp. xi, 69; 29 illustrations, list of parish priests, list of assistant priests, list of priests and religious born and /or educated in Chilten/Rutherglen, original illustrated stiff stapled wrappers, monastery stamp on title page otherwise a very good copy. Chiltern, VIC; St. Mary's; 1976. The area of Chiltern was on the Wahgunyah cattle run and was known as Black Dog Creek. The township, named after the Chiltern Hills in England, was surveyed in 1853 but not established until gold discoveries in 1858-59 during the greater Victorian Gold Rush period. This is the history of the catholic church from the first wooden building in the 1850's up until the mid 1970's, containing numerous stories of local identities and events.
Keywords: Australian local church history victoria australia church chiltern rutherglen
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- Book number: 117960