Very Rev Viventius Bourgeois

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Viventius

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Bourgeois

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1807

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France

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Sydney SydneyTeacher, St Mary's SeminaryLinane Vol 1
Sydney BathurstGaol ChaplainOct18441846Linane Vol 1
Sydney St Francis', MelbourneLinane Vol 1
Sydney BathurstLinane Vol 1
Melbourne St Francis'1850Linane Vol 1
Melbourne Heidelberg1857Linane Vol 1
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Biographical Notes

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 29:

Bourgeois, Viventius (Vincent), Very Rev., French
Suspended by a Dean, Later a Dean Himself
b. 1807; arr. Syd. on 'John Woodhall' 11.1.1843, being recruited by Dr. Ullathorne. Teacher at St. M. Seminary and played a leading part in choral functions. Received a Government salary of £200 per annum. Stationed at Bathurst from Oct. '44 to early '46, carrying out the assignment of gaol chaplain. He then came to St. Francis' Melb. as assistant to Vicar Forane, Fr. P.B. Geoghegan. The V.F. was wrapped on the knuckles by Abbot Gregory for suspending his assistant, "an uncanonical action". B. duly left after tendering an apology. On return to Bathurst he was nominated a Dean. In 1850 he returned to Melbourne,serving first at St. F. and then becoming the first resident on the Heidelberg mission, probably living in the vicinity of today's Preston. B. did splendid work,setting up a school at Broadmeadows and commencing a stone church at Heidelberg (F.S. Easter 1852). Returned to France on the 'Kent' 25.3.1857. His later career has not been traced.
(Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 6.)
Ref.: Files of MDHC at Fitzroy HQ and Torquay, 'The Men of '38', Hartigan; 'Letters of a Miner', Antoine Fauchery. The latter work gives a humorous and kindly assessment of a zealous worker, counsellor, and confessor - as well as a black and white drawing of the body frame.