St Catherine Laboure Putatan

A Dream Fulfilled by Datuk Stephen Sondoh Putatan was identified as one of the earliest Christian mission in North Borneo as early as 1881 by Rev. Fr Thomas Jackson, the Second Perfect Apostle based in Labuan. The other missions identified were Papar Jesselton (Api-Api) and Sandakan, including six in Sarawak namely Sibu, Kinowit, Igan, Oya, …

St. Catherine Laboure, virgin, was born on May 2, 1806. At an early age she entered the community of the Daughters of Charity, in Paris, France. Three times in 1830 the Virgin Mary appeared to St. Catherine Laboure, who then was a twenty-four year old novice. On July 18, the first apparition occurred in the …

By JENNE LAJIUN PENAMPANG: It started with a missionaries’ dream some 127 years ago to have a church built at Kampung Imbaan in Putatan. And now, despite all the tough going for the team of volunteers to realise the monumental church project, the six storey St. Catherine Laboure church building, which resembles the Romanesque architecture …