St Josephs Church, Jerusalem

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Coming up is the village of Jerusalem, once known as Patiarero. In 1854 a Roman Catholic Mission was established here and a school for Maori children opened in 1883. In the late 1960s Jerusalem was home to New Zealand poet James K Baxter. During his time here he wrote the Jerusalem Sonnets and formed a community which had five rules: â€œTo share goods; to speak the truth; to love one another and to show it by embrace; to take no job where one has to lick the bossâ€™s arse; and to learn from the Maori side of the fence.â€� Baxter left the commune in the early â€˜70s and was an activist until his death in 1972. At his request, his body was laid to rest at St Joesphâ€™s Church in Jerusalem.

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