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Rev'd Arnold Spencer Smith (image in memorial window, All Saints, Dunedin) by Andrew Metcalfe

Remembering Arnold Spencer-Smith @ All Saints Dunedin

Michael Wallace — Mar 2, 2025

Saturday March 8th 2025 is when the 109th anniversary of the death of Rev. Arnold Spencer-Smith is being delebrated at All Saints' Church, Dunedin.

Antarctic explorer, Padre, Photographer to the Ross Sea Party of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

The following is planned for Saturday 8 March:

  • 5.00pm Mass using Spencer-Smith’s chalice & paten, blessing of Spencer- Smith Window

  • 6.00pm Reception in All Saints’ Hall,

  • 7.00pm 7th annual Spencer-Smith Lecture: "Paths are made for walking"

    by Susanna Ferrar, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, P.G.Cert. Antarctic Studies, Grandchild of Antarctic explorer H.T. Ferrar.

All welcome, nau mai, haere mai.

All Saints’ Church 786 Cumberland St, Dunedin www.allsaintsdn.org.nz 4792212

Ross Sea party of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition — Image by: Arnold Spencer-Smith

Print of scene representing Rev'd Arnold Spencer Smith celebrating Mass on the ice with Mt Erebus behind (1/3 prints by Manu Berry) — Image by: Andrew Metcalfe


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