Its Christmas Eve, 1hr driving from Melacca after joining the 12km night run last night. Unplanned journey sometimes will bring you to the place where you mean to be. And here I am IN ONE OF THE OLDEST Church in Malaysia. church of visitation The History The Church of the Visitation was built in 1885, but the parish community already existed since 1848. French Fr. Pierre Henri Borie is the first missionary was sent in 1847, by Bishop John Baptist Boucho, the Vicar Apostolic of Malacca-Singapore, to work among the indigenous people in Seremban. some history tells that the French missionaries who set foot in Seremban came from Malacca. in 1845 Bishop John Baptist Boucho sent a priest Fr.Pierre Favre to start the parish of St Francis Xavier in Malacca. it would seem that Bishop John was paying special attention to the material and religious formation of a group of people, the indigenous living in the Malayan forest, so the Bishop appointed a yo