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At a German mission in Victoria's Wimmera, a young Wotjobaluk man converted to Christianity in 1860. After a vision of Jesus sweating blood in Gethsemane, he began evangelising his people in their own language.
Joanna Cruickshank is a Senior Research Associate in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne. She researches, lectures and publishes on the role of religion in British and Australian history.