Rosendo Salvado
![Statute of Rosendo Salvado, located in his hometown of [[Tui, Pontevedra|Tui]], [[Province of Pontevedra|Pontevedra]], Galicia, Spain](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Fundiciones_Manuel_Malingre%2C_Orense_1949.JPG)
Rosendo Salvado Rotea OSB (1 March 1814 – 29 December 1900) was a Spanish Benedictine monk, missionary, bishop, pianist, composer, author, founder and first abbot of the Territorial Abbey of New Norcia in Western Australia. Salvado introduced the blue gum to Galicia, a species which displaced the native Spanish chestnut and oak.
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