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About Help Contact login Rev Martin Jacques SJ Title: Rev First Name: Martin Middle Names: Preferred Name: Surname: Jacques Order: SJ Date of Birth: 14-Jun-1835 Place of Birth: Country of Birth: Belgium Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 15-Mar-1890 Place of Death: Melbourne VIC Country of Death: Australia Date of Burial: 17-Mar-1890 Place of Burial: Boroondara, Kew VIC Country of Burial: Australia Find A Grave URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208206612 FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017: Jacques, Martin Pastor; born Belgium, 14 June 1835; died Melbourne, 15 March 1890, aged 54. Martin Jacques studied humanities and logic in the minor seminary of the Namur province from June 1835. He entered the Society, 31 May 1855, and after the noviciate studied rhetoric and philosophy. He did regency for five years, followed by theology at Louvain from September 1866. During theology he was sent to the Bengal mission, arriving in India, 9 November 1867, and Calcutta, 14 December. He taught grammar in the college of St Francis Xavier for two years, completed theology, and was ordained by Archbishop Walter Steins, who subsequently died in Sydney, on 27 September 1868. He worked first among the Christians from Madras who were living in Calcutta, and then did parochial duties attached to the cathedral. The heat, together with teaching combined with pastoral duties, exhausted him, and he returned to Europe in 1870. When his health improved, Jacques taught grammar to the lower classes in the schools. He returned to India and the Calcutta province in November 1871, and was attached to the church of the Sacred Heart, locally called Dhurrumtollah. He worked among Europeans and local Catholics who lived in the region and operated from six stations. Sometime later he built a church. Further churches were built at Ranigunj and Burdwan from 1877. He worked in this region until the end of 1883. Martin worked later in the province of Chota-Nagpor, and the following year returned to Brussels. He arrived in Australia in 1885 in ill health. He was sent as minister in the North Shore parish, 1885-89, and then spent the last years of his life, 1889-90, at Hawthorn. He also spent a short time in New Zealand during 1888. (Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)

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Rev

First Name:

Martin

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Jacques

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Date of Birth:

14-Jun-1835

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Country of Birth:

Belgium

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Date of Death:

15-Mar-1890

Place of Death:

Melbourne VIC

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Australia

Date of Burial:

17-Mar-1890

Place of Burial:

Boroondara, Kew VIC

Country of Burial:

Australia

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208206612

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Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017:
Jacques, Martin

Pastor; born Belgium, 14 June 1835; died Melbourne, 15 March 1890, aged 54.

Martin Jacques studied humanities and logic in the minor seminary of the Namur province from June 1835. He entered the Society, 31 May 1855, and after the noviciate studied rhetoric and philosophy. He did regency for five years, followed by theology at Louvain from September 1866.

During theology he was sent to the Bengal mission, arriving in India, 9 November 1867, and Calcutta, 14 December. He taught grammar in the college of St Francis Xavier for two years, completed theology, and was ordained by Archbishop Walter Steins, who subsequently died in Sydney, on 27 September 1868.

He worked first among the Christians from Madras who were living in Calcutta, and then did parochial duties attached to the cathedral. The heat, together with teaching combined with pastoral duties, exhausted him, and he returned to Europe in 1870. When his health improved, Jacques taught grammar to the lower classes in the schools.

He returned to India and the Calcutta province in November 1871, and was attached to the church of the Sacred Heart, locally called Dhurrumtollah. He worked among Europeans and local Catholics who lived in the region and operated from six stations. Sometime later he built a church. Further churches were built at Ranigunj and Burdwan from 1877. He worked in this region until the end of 1883.

Martin worked later in the province of Chota-Nagpor, and the following year returned to Brussels.

He arrived in Australia in 1885 in ill health. He was sent as minister in the North Shore parish, 1885-89, and then spent the last years of his life, 1889-90, at Hawthorn. He also spent a short time in New Zealand during 1888.

(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)

Rev Martin Jacques SJ

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