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Sunday, 14th July, 6pm
The Old Church 199 Meeanee Rd, Napier Includes three course meal, welcome bubbles and some wine per table Members $85, non-members $95 Orton’s are delighted to present their delicious French-inspired menu; Dietary requirements accommodated (please note on the booking form) There will be non-alcoholic and any extra drinks purchased from the bar will need to be paid for with a credit or debit card. |
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The Old Church's: "French connection" - un lien avec la France
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Un peu d'histoire...
The Old Church was part of the original Marist mission before it moved to the Mission in Greenmeadows. In 1858 French missionaries of the Society of Mary (Marists) planted a small vineyard at Meeanee, Hawke’s Bay, to make table and sacramental wine. They began selling red wine to the public in 1870, and one of their wines – from a mid-1880s vintage – won a silver medal at the 1892 Paris Exhibition. After flooding in 1897, the Meeanee vineyard was abandoned and the brothers relocated to Greenmeadows – where Mission Estate was still producing wine in the early 2000s. This is the 1895 harvest at Meeanee. Sister Suzanne "Mary Joseph" Aubert in Hawke's Bay In February 1871 she responded to a request from the Marist, Father Euloge Reignier, to join his missionary work at Meeanee in Hawke's Bay. A lay assistant associated with the Third Order Regular of Mary in New Zealand, Sister Aubert worked as a teacher, catechist and nurse. She became interested in Māori herbal remedies and, in 1879, published a Māori-language prayerbook and catechism, Kō te ako me te karakia ō te hāhi Katorika Rōmana (1879). Later she was to publish her New and complete manual of Māori conversation (1885) which included general rules of grammar and an extensive vocabulary. (From Te Ara website) |
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