Torres - book Christening George Russo

George Russo

Miguel de los Santos Salvado Rotea entered the novitiate at St Martin of Compostela in 1825 and was ordained there ten years later

St Anselm of Canterbury and Others

he yearned for a simple monastic life as a missionary

When he finally managed to work with Aboriginal people

Torres - book Christening George RussoThe name of Rosendo Salvado (1814 1900) has long been a synonym for Catholic missionary activity among the Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, the Benedictine cleric's romantic future for the original inhabitants of the Victoria Plains, as a largely self sufficient population of farmers and tradesmen, was doomed to disappointment. Likewise, his plan to establish a monastery whose Spanish monks