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Rev Victor De Reijke MSC

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Victor

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

De Reijke

Order:

MSC

Date of Birth:

23-Mar-1871

Place of Birth:

Country of Birth:

Belgium

Date of Ordination:

21-Dec-1895

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Papua New Guinea

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

05-Jan-1899

Place of Death:

Country of Death:

Papua New Guinea

Date of Burial:

1899

Place of Burial:

Country of Burial:

Papua New Guinea

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Biographical Notes

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, pp 138-139:

De Reijke, Victor, MSC, Belgian, Visitor
A Short Missionary Career in British New Guinea

The name is added to the list through the courtesy of Fr. John McMahon of the MSC Archives, Canberra. Victor was born in Belgium on 23 March 1871 and professed as a Sacred Heart missionary on 23 November 1891. He came from France to British New Guinea as a scholastic and was ordained there on 21 December 1895. Alas, the priestly career lasted only three years for he died at his mission station on 5 January 1899 at the early age of 27.
Like other missionaries going to New Guinea he had passed through Sydney.
(Footprints, Vol. 3, No. 8)