Rev Théophile Busson SM

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Théophile

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Busson

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SM

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10-Sep-1861

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Loire-Atlantique

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France

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16-Sep-1945

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New Caledonia

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Biographical Notes

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 38:

Busson, Theophile, SM, French, Visitor, Diamond Jubilarian
b. 1861 in Nantes Dioc.; professed '93; arr. Melb. 24.9.'93 on the 'Australien' on way to Noumea. (Shipping List, State Library, Melb.). Served in New Hebrides and New Cal. d. 1.9.1945; age 84.
(Not listed prev.in Footprints)
Ref.: Marist Missionaries to the Pacific 1837-1900 - an appendix to the 'Marist Fathers in Australia', by Fr. John Hosie SM, M.A. Thesis, Syd. 1971.

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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 201, 294:

Fr. Théophile Busson, d. 1945
Vanuatu - New Caledonia
He was born in Loire-Atlantique, France in 1861. After being a diocesan priest for 8 years, he did his novitiate in England being professed a Marist in 1893. He left the same year for Oceania aged 33. He spent 5 years on Malekula in Vanuatu at Lamap and Wala, before ill health forced him to go to New Caledonia. After 5 years as chaplain at Nemeara Agricultural Farm near Bourail, he stayed at Houailou for 33 years. There he wrote many hymns in the native language as means of conveying the Christian faith. He spent his remaining 7 years as a chaplain to the Little Sisters of the Poor. He died at St. Louis, aged 84 after 52 years of Marist life.