Rev Émile Babonneau SM

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Rev

First Name:

Émile

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Babonneau

Order:

SM

Date of Birth:

05-Mar-1872

Place of Birth:

Loire-Atlantique

Country of Birth:

France

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Date of Death:

20-Jan-1931

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Country of Death:

Solomon Islands

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Solomon Islands

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Biographical Notes

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 18:

Babonneau, Aemilius, SM (Visitor), French
Arr. Syd. 1897 on way to Fiji Mission; later Directory listings: Marau, Sth. Solomons (1907), Biton (Samoa), where he probably died 30.6.1910. The name is not listed in Rev. J. Hosie's M.A. Thesis (Syd.) 1971: Marist Missionaries to the Pacific.
(Not listed in Footprints)

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Fr. Michael Fitzgerald, SM and Fr. François Grossin, SM, Alive in Memory: A Biographic Necrology of Oceania Marist Province 1836-2011, 4th edition, Suva, 2011, pp 23, 293:

Fr. Émile Babonneau d. 1931
Fiji - Solomon Islands
He was born in Loire-Atlantique, France in 1872. He was professed in 1895 and ordained at the age of 25. He left the same year for Fiji. He worked for 3 years in Naiserelagi before going to the Solomon Islands in 1902. After working in Guadalcanal for 7 years, he founded the mission station at Wainoni Bay, San Cristobal-Makira in 1909, remaining in charge of that mission for 22 years until his death at the age of 59.