Rome scholarship set up in memory of Indigenous boy lost 163 years ago

By Desmond O'Grady
Updated October 24 2016 - 11:13am, first published September 30 2016 - 6:27pm
A scan of a drawing of John Dirimera, left, and Francis Conaci from the Archives of the Benedictine Community of New Norcia. Photo: Miriam Rudolph
A scan of a drawing of John Dirimera, left, and Francis Conaci from the Archives of the Benedictine Community of New Norcia. Photo: Miriam Rudolph
Janiculum Hill in Rome where the Australian Catholic University has a joint campus with the Catholic University of America. Photo: Commons
Janiculum Hill in Rome where the Australian Catholic University has a joint campus with the Catholic University of America. Photo: Commons

Italy: A Rome university has established a scholarship for Indigenous Australians in honour of a teenage boy who died in the abbey attached to St Paul's Basilica 163 years ago.