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Mota (island)
Mota is an extinct volcanic island in the Banks group of Torba Province in northern Vanuatu.
==History==
It was discovered by the Spanish expedition of Pedro Fernández de Quirós on 25 April 1606 and named ''Nuestra Señora de la Luz'' (Our Lady of Light). 〔Saint-Martin, M. Vivien de ''Nouveau dictionnaire de géographie universelle'' Paris, 1879-1895, vol III, p. 1029.〕
The island is famous because its language was used by the first missionaries in Melanesia. For the better part of a century from 1849, most teaching in classrooms and schools of all kinds, and most prayers and hymns from Isabel in the Solomons all the way through Pentecost in Vanuatu were done in the language of this small island. Some Mota words are still known throughout the Melanesian archipelago, e.g. ''tasiu'' (brother, taken here in the religious sense of "member of a brotherhood" i.e. the Melanesian Brotherhood)
The famous missionary John Coleridge Patteson lived on Mota, in the village of Veverao. The first Melanesian priest, Father George Sarawia was from Mota, and the first Christian baptisms and Eucharist and Confirmations were there. Mota is generally held to be the first Melanesian island to become Christian, though missionary work began a year later than on Aneityum.
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