Church Name: St Mary
(Photograph from the Marist Archives)
Costing £800, this church was blessed and opened on May 13, 1866 by Bishop Viard of Wellington, Father Jeremiah O’Reily OFM Cap. Vicar General of Wellington preaching in both Irish and English at the opening.
St Patrick’s Greymouth was consecrated a month later, on Sunday 17 June.
