Rev Armand Camu SM

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Armand

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Surname:

Camu

Order:

SM

Date of Birth:

05-Nov-1838

Place of Birth:

Ille-et-Vilaine

Country of Birth:

France

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Date of Death:

23-Apr-1867

Place of Death:

Country of Death:

New Caledonia

Date of Burial:

1867

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Country of Burial:

New Caledonia

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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, p 17:

Camu, Armande, SM French, Visitor
A Youthful Marist
Camu was born on 5 November 1836 in the Rennes Diocese, and received his Profession as a Marist on 12 January 1861. His short career as a missionary was spent in Fiji. Visits were made for health reasons to Sydney in 1864 and 1867. He died on 23 April 1867 and is buried in New Caledonia. Age: 30.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 1)
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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 89, 295:

Fr. Armand Camu, d. 1867
Fiji
He was born in Ille-et-Vilaine, France 1838. He was professed a Marist in 1861. In 1864, aged 26, he arrived in Solevu, Vanua Levu, Fiji. After two years there his health deteriorated seriously and he went to Sydney for treatment. There he was advised to seek a better climate in New Caledonia. Shortly after arriving there however he died at the age of 3l.