Rev Henri Artignan SM

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Rev

First Name:

Henri

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Artignan

Order:

SM

Date of Birth:

27-Jan-1830

Place of Birth:

Hérault

Country of Birth:

France

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Date of Death:

14-Feb-1895

Place of Death:

Le Neylière

Country of Death:

France

Date of Burial:

1895

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France

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Biographical Notes

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

Artignan, Henri SM (Visitor), French b. Montpellier Diocese 1830; professed 1851; arr. Syd. 1864 on way to New Caledonia Mission.
d. 14.2.1895; age 65; interred in La Neyliere France.
(See Footprints Vol. 1, No. 1)
Ref.: Rev. J. Hosie, Marist Historian, Church Hill, Sydney.

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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 41, 293:

Fr. Henri Artignan d. 1895
New Caledonia
He was born in Hérault, France in 1830 and was professed a Marist in 1851. He taught in major seminaries until he arrived in Noumea, aged 34. For 7 years he was priest assistant at the cathedral. In 1871 he was made parish priest at Paita, and then Pro-Vicar of the diocese. In 1876 he accompanied Bishop Vitte to Europe. He was appointed master of novices at Verdelais, and later on sent to the novitiate of Paington, England for 13 years. He returned to France in 1894 as an assistant in the second novitiate at Le Neylière, where he died aged 65.