More information on reference to Peter to Rot

Further to an item published in the Winter edition, Peter Malone MSC contacted The Swag to add to the reporting on the impending canonisation of Peter to Rot in Papua New Guinea.

He writes, “I wondered whether you could make a note in the next issue concerning the item about the canonisation of Peter to Rot. At the end, there is comment on the work of the Divine Word Missionaries in PNG.

While I am happy to praise their important mission work, Peter to Rot lived and was martyred in Rabaul. In 1881, Leo XIII entrusted the missions
of New Guinea to the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, one group arriving
in Papua, Yule Island, another arriving in Rabaul and continuing there, many of them imprisoned in Ramale Valley in World War II. In fact, the present Archbishop of Rabaul, Rochus Tatamai MSC, is a relation of Peter to Rot”.