New Norcia, WA
Aug 28, 2019
2 minutes
Origin of the name
When Benedictine monks established a mission on the banks of the Moore River, WA, they named it New Norcia after Norcia in Italy, the birthplace of the order’s founder, St Benedict.
NEW NORCIA IS A little piece of the Mediterranean in the Australian bush. It has a monastery, church, hotel, working farm, beehives, wells, schools and an art gallery and museum. It has remained fundamentally
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