On Monday 28th of June the Church celebrated the Feast of St Irenaeus.

 He was the Bishop of Lyon in France from c. 177 to 202. He is important to the Church in Aotearoa New Zealand because he was ordained as bishop by St Polycarp, who had in turn been ordained by St John the Evangelist (one of the twelve apostles). A later Bishop of Lyon, Jean-Baptiste Pompallier brought the Catholic faith to New Zealand in 1838. 

On Wednesday 7 July is the Feast Day of Blessed Peter To Rot. He was a Catechist (a teacher of the Catholic Faith) in Papua New Guinea in the 1940’s during World War II. He was arrested and murdered because he refused to stop teaching villagers about Jesus and leading them in prayer. This makes him a Martyr (a person who gives up their life for the faith).