{"id":4929,"date":"2013-09-15T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/2013\/09\/15\/pilgrimage-to-the-south-island-day-three-lawrence-cromwell-and-queenstown\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T02:55:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T02:55:14","slug":"pilgrimage-to-the-south-island-day-three-lawrence-cromwell-and-queenstown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/2013\/09\/15\/pilgrimage-to-the-south-island-day-three-lawrence-cromwell-and-queenstown\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrimage to the South Island: Day Three: Lawrence, Cromwell and Queenstown"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nWednesday it was off to visit the Convent and School in
\nQueenstown. On the way we stopped at Lawrence to visit St Patrick’s Church and
\nthe Dominican convent which was situated just behind it. Now a private
\nresidence we were unable to explore quite as thoroughly as the previous day but
\nwe were able to explore the Church. Next stop was Cromwell to visit the Church
\nof the Irish Martyrs which included a glorious drive along the beautiful Lake
\nWakatipu, which was used to transport the Sisters to their destinations in the
\nearly days. As we went from place to place Sister Reader gave us excerpts from
\nthe Star of the South so we were able to familiarise ourselves with each place
\nbefore we got there. Back in the day, Sisters for the Queenstown Convent
\narrived by boat and were greeted with the town band playing lively airs, local dignitaries welcoming them to the town, the faithful and children carrying lanterns. Other foundations
\ndidn\u2019t start off quite so well; one tale included the Sisters turning up a week
\nbefore they were apparently expected and they had to be whisked off for a day
\nat the beach while the embarrassed Bishop made temporary arrangements for them.<\/span><\/span>
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\nThe Queenstown Convent, School and Church were heavenly and
\nmatched the stunning surroundings. Snowy mountains, green forests and clear
\nblue lakes wherever you turned. The Sisters must have been very content with
\ntheir location, for the views from the convent were spectacular. We were able
\nto visit the Church, named in honour of St Joseph, and the School, which to our
\ndelight was preparing a play on Mother Gill for her
\nanniversary. Teachers were amazed to see us and thought their pupils had
\ndressed up ahead of time for it. They were kind enough to show us around the convent
\nwhich was being used as a storeroom for the school and the more adventurous
\npupils ventured to come up and introduce themselves. Late evening saw us driving
\nback to Dunedin to enjoy another delicious meal cooked by our host Mrs Best,
\nwho kindly put her whole home at our disposal. <\/span><\/span>
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Wednesday it was off to visit the Convent and School in Queenstown. On the way we stopped at Lawrence to visit St Patrick’s Church and the Dominican convent which was situated just behind it. Now a private residence we were unable to explore quite as thoroughly as the previous day but we were able to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convent-life","infinite-scroll-item","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5261,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/5261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}