PERU MISSION
When Bishop Lucey set up the Cork and Ross Mission to P, 1966 the first volunteers were three Sisters from the Hospital. Their first voyage, with 57 trunks and tea-chests, took several weeks on the sea. Thank God they survived the difficulties of staring a new mission, the language barrier, the climate, the want of light and water, and all the cultural shocks. In the following years, the mission has been staffed by Sisters
from the school. To the present day, there has always been a Bantry presence in Penu.
The Peru mission has never been without ample coverage and appreciation, and rightly so, but the loss and hardship to the home-mission has never been appreciated.
(Researched and written by 5r. M. Vincent. McCormack)
Southern Province 