chiefs. Despite this opposition, and the eventual failure of some of his missions on the island, Walsh spent the next six years establishing churches and schools around the island, including the Saint Raphael Catholic Church, which began in 1843. He even extended his mission to the island of Niihau in 1842, celebrating the first Mass there on 31 July. He returned to Oahu either in 1848 or in 1859. Death Walsh returned to Oahu, where he became the pastor of Ahuimanu. It was there that he died on 14 October 1869. Notes References 1804 births 1869 deaths 19th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests Irish Roman Catholic missionaries Irish expatriates in the Hawaiian Kingdom Hawaii Catholic priests Picpus Fathers Roman Catholic missionaries in Hawaii Burials in Hawaii 19th-century American Roman Catholic priests