History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 34 Part 2 History Of The Marshall Island Mission Of The Sacred Heart Missionaries, 1895-1919
Levesque, Rodrigue (2006). History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 34 Part 2 History Of The Marshall Island Mission Of The Sacred Heart Missionaries, 1895-1919. 34.2. Gatineau, Québec: Lévesque Publications. ISBN 978-0-920201-34-3.
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Abstract: HOM.34.2 documents the Marshall Islands Mission of the Sacred Heart Missionaries (MSC) from roughly 1895–1919, focusing on missionary expansion under German colonial administration. Geographic coverage centers on Jaluit, the administrative center of the Ralik Chain, and mission stations on Likiep, Arno, Mili, Utirik, and surrounding atolls. Additional materials concern Nauru, then connected administratively and ecclesiastically with the Marshalls, along with references to neighboring island groups including the Gilbert Islands, Ponape (Pohnpei), and New Britain. The volume contains letters, reports, and essays originally published in the German missionary periodical Monatshefte zu Ehren Unserer Lieben Frau vom Heiligsten Herzen Jesu, describing mission travel between atolls, construction of churches and schools, maritime routes through Jaluit Harbor, and connections with colonial and commercial centers such as Sydney, Apia, and the trading networks of the Jaluit Company. 
The documents feature numerous missionaries of the Sacred Heart Missionaries of Hiltrup, including Fr. August Erdland, Fr. John Wendler, Fr. Josef Filbry, Fr. Bruno Schinke, Fr. Weber, Fr. Kayser, Fr. Giesberts, and others, along with MSC Brothers such as Calixtus Bader and missionary sisters including Sister Stanisla, Sister Georgia, Sister Leontine, and Sister Magdalena. Indigenous leaders and community figures appear frequently, among them Chief Kabua of Jaluit, Chief Jebangel of Arno, Chief Litokua, Chief Lijelang, and other Marshallese chiefs and families who interacted with the mission. The records also refer to colonial officials, traders, and shipping agents connected with the German colonial administration and the commercial operations of the Jaluit Company, whose steamers and schooners linked the atolls to wider Pacific trade routes. 
Narrative accounts describe the founding and expansion of Catholic mission stations across the Marshall Islands and Nauru, the establishment of churches, schools, and boarding institutions, and the training of local catechists. Missionary correspondence records storms and typhoons affecting Jaluit, maritime travel between remote atolls, the construction of mission vessels such as the schooner Ana, and ethnographic observations on Marshallese life including copra production, arrowroot preparation, fishing, canoe navigation, and burial customs. Later documents address major political events such as the Japanese capture of Jaluit in 1914 during the First World War, along with reports on the changing administration of the islands and the continuing activities of missionaries during wartime conditions. 
