sentences:  Missionary work has been of late years carried on amongst the natives on a very large scale, owing to the advent of some Trappists into the Colony of Natal, who afterwards were organised into the Congregation of the Missionaries of Mariannhill.They devoted themselves entirely to the evangelisation of the natives, and as statistics show, their efforts and labours were fully rewarded.The late Anglo-Boer war hampered much the missionary work in this vicariate, but the consequences of this war practically disappeared.