SINGAPORE-At 6pm on Saturday( Dec 11), bells in all 32 Catholic churches across the island rang in unison, sounding the close of year-long celebrations commemorating the Roman Catholic Church's 200th anniversary in Singapore. Father Laurent Marie Joseph Imbert is believed to be the first Catholic missionary here, having landed on Singapore's shores on Dec 11, 1821. Four days later, he wrote to Bishop Esprit Marie Joseph Florens, the Apostolic Vicar of Siam who had sent him to Singapore:" I have
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