New Norcia, Western Australia 

New Norcia, Western Australia is situated about 130 kilometres north of the capital city Perth. This video is a collection of short footage we made during our second visit to New Norcia. Yes, it is a little raw and not of a professional standard being filmed using an old iPhone X. Nevertheless, many people would like to see New Norcia but cannot, hence it is our pleasure to share what we saw and enjoyed.
Some brief background: New Norcia, founded in March 1847 and has since been a mission, a monastic town, a place of education, and now a tourism destination. The town was founded by two Spanish Benedictine monks, Dom José Benito Serra and Dom Rosendo Salvado, who were assigned to the newly appointed first Bishop of Perth, Rt Rev John Brady . The first fifty years of New Norcia’s history are dominated by the towering figure of Bishop Rosendo Salvado, who spent 54 years of his life making New Norcia one of the most progressive and successful missions in Australian history . Salvado’s original vision was to create, among the indigenous peoples of the Victoria Plains, a Christian, largely self-sufficient village based on agriculture. However, after the decimation of the local populations by introduced diseases in the 1860s, he concentrated his activity on giving a practical education to the indigenous children who were brought to New Norcia from all over the state. Later on, boarding schools cater for the children of the from pastoral regions of Western Australia. New Norcia is now one of the most popular tourist attractions in Western Australia.