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Fun fact
33 of the convicts were Catholics -
Church
In 1788 governor Philip told all the convicts to go to the Anglican Church if thay didn’t go they would get the cat O nine tails The catholic didn’t want to go so he burnt down -
Test
The Catholics in order to keep the faith they prayed very quietly so Governor Philip wouldn’t hear them -
Father James Dixon
Father James Dixon was the first preast in NSW at the time governor Phillip let him teach -
Mass
Father James Dixon held his first mass in Sidney on the 15th of may