The Catholic Missions in Northern Nigeria: Foundation and First Years (1906 - 1910)

Frs. Oswald Waller, Joseph Mouren and Ernest Belin were the first missionaries to shed literally their sweat and blood to start the first mission of Northern Nigeria in 1907. It was not an easy task by any standard. When Fr. Mouren went back to Shendam in 1957 for the fiftieth anniversary of the place, he could see two dioceses, two prefectures and thirty five residential stations with over sixty five thousand Catholics in the place that had nothing but three zealous missionaries fifty year...