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Oblates
The word oblate* is from the Latin oblatus - 'someone who has been offered' - in this case to God. It is included in the name of the congregation called the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI). They arrived in Fremantle in 1894, and have since then (except for a short period) been responsible for the St Patrick's parish, including the Basilica. The congregation was created by Eugene de Mazenod, who in 1816 founded the Religious Congregation of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. There are two Mazenod Colleges named after him in Australia, one in Mulgrave, Vic., the other in Lesmurdie. Another two OMI schools are Iona College in Brisbane and St Eugene College, also in Brisbane.
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See also: St Patrick's Basilica, Mazenod School.
- Although it is the 'same' word, the one meaning 'flattened at the poles' as in 'the earth is an oblate sphere' has had a slightly different etymological journey from the one that means 'offered', the first coming directly from modern Latin oblatus from ob- 'inversely' - latus 'carried', the other via French from oblatus as the past participle of Latin offerre - 'to offer'.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 13 June, 2022 and hosted at freotopia.org/organisations/oblates.html (it was last updated on 31 December, 2023), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.