Jean-Baptiste Chevreuil


About Help Contact login Rev Jean-Baptiste Chevreuil SM Title: Rev First Name: Jean-Baptiste Middle Names: Preferred Name: Surname: Chevreuil Order: SM Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1865 Place of Birth: Loire-Atlantique Country of Birth: France Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 29-Dec-1943 Place of Death: Country of Death: New Caledonia Date of Burial: Place of Burial: Country of Burial: New Caledonia Find A Grave URL: FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 37: Chevreuil, Jean Baptiste, Very Rev., SM, French, Golden Jubilarian Some Reader May Remember This Marist In the Marist Necrology drawn up by Father John Hosie S.M., the death date of Jean Baptiste is given as 29 December 1943. No doubt this is correct and leads to the supposition that he must have died in France or somewhere overseas. As well the name does not appear after 1926 when J.B. was part of the community at Villa Maria, Hunters Hill. Other details as given by Father Hosie are: born in the Diocese of Nantes 2 February 1865; professed on 24 September 1887. He arrived in Sydney in 1891 spending a short time at Villa Maria before taking up a missionary task on Fiji. A good part of his life was taken up in service on Futuna and Rotuma Islands, possibly until about 1912. We find him at St. Patrick's, Church Hill later (1915 & 1917 Directories) and later still at Villa Maria (1920), (1926) - last reading in a Directory. At the time of death, wherever it was, he was 78 years of age and had attained the distinction of being a Golden Jubilarian. (Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 4) Ref.: Father John Hosie S.M., Appendix to 'The Marist Fathers in Australia' (M.A. Thesis, Sydney, 1971). --- 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 273, 295: Fr. Jean-Baptiste Chevreuil, d. 1943 Fiji - New Caledonia Fifth Provincial of Oceania Province He was born in Loire-Atlantique, France in 1865. After formation in France, England and Spain, he left for Oceania in 1890, aged 25. For the first 3 years he worked in the Procure at Sydney, before going on to Rotuma for 4 years. He was then recalled to work again in the Sydney Procure. In 1918, he became Provincial of Oceania in the difficult post-war period, the time of the great flu epidemic. After his term as Provincial he went to New Caledonia. After a year at Easo on Lifou, he was called to St. Louis and made Pro-Vicar and Superior of the Mission. In 1926 he took charge of the parish of La Conception, where he died aged 78.

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Jean-Baptiste

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Chevreuil

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02-Feb-1865

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Loire-Atlantique

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France

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29-Dec-1943

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New Caledonia

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New Caledonia

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Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 37:

Chevreuil, Jean Baptiste, Very Rev., SM, French, Golden Jubilarian
Some Reader May Remember This Marist
In the Marist Necrology drawn up by Father John Hosie S.M., the death date of Jean Baptiste is given as 29 December 1943. No doubt this is correct and leads to the supposition that he must have died in France or somewhere overseas. As well the name does not appear after 1926 when J.B. was part of the community at Villa Maria, Hunters Hill. Other details as given by Father Hosie are: born in the Diocese of Nantes 2 February 1865; professed on 24 September 1887. He arrived in Sydney in 1891 spending a short time at Villa Maria before taking up a missionary task on Fiji. A good part of his life was taken up in service on Futuna and Rotuma Islands, possibly until about 1912. We find him at St. Patrick's, Church Hill later (1915 & 1917 Directories) and later still at Villa Maria (1920), (1926) - last reading in a Directory. At the time of death, wherever it was, he was 78 years of age and had attained the distinction of being a Golden Jubilarian.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 4)
Ref.: Father John Hosie S.M., Appendix to 'The Marist Fathers in Australia' (M.A. Thesis, Sydney, 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 273, 295:

Fr. Jean-Baptiste Chevreuil, d. 1943
Fiji - New Caledonia
Fifth Provincial of Oceania Province
He was born in Loire-Atlantique, France in 1865. After formation in France, England and Spain, he left for Oceania in 1890, aged 25. For the first 3 years he worked in the Procure at Sydney, before going on to Rotuma for 4 years. He was then recalled to work again in the Sydney Procure. In 1918, he became Provincial of Oceania in the difficult post-war period, the time of the great flu epidemic. After his term as Provincial he went to New Caledonia. After a year at Easo on Lifou, he was called to St. Louis and made Pro-Vicar and Superior of the Mission. In 1926 he took charge of the parish of La Conception, where he died aged 78.

Rev Jean-Baptiste Chevreuil SM

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