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About Help Contact login Rev St Peter Chanel SM Title: Rev First Name: Pierre Middle Names: Louis Marie Preferred Name: St Peter Surname: Chanel Order: SM Date of Birth: 12-Jul-1803 Place of Birth: La Potière, Montrevel-en-Bresse, Ain Country of Birth: France Date of Ordination: 15-Jul-1827 Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 28-Apr-1841 Place of Death: Futuna Country of Death: Overseas Date of Burial: Place of Burial: Reinterred: Futuna Country of Burial: Overseas Find A Grave URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/240116866 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 34: Chanel, St. Peter, French, Visitor ... in death Saint of the Pacific To date the only canonized Saint that was on our shores (and that not in the flesh) was St. Peter Chanel. The chronology relating to the bringing of his remains to Hunters Hill from Futuna Island and New Zealand, thence on to France, is recorded under Fr. Claude Bemin. The heroic life story of the Saint is found in many books and pamphlets, so it will be enough to record the main life details: born in the village of Cras in southern France. Ordained in 1827, he became a curate in Crozet. Seemingly he trained and taught at the Marist College in Belley, and in December 1836 set out for the Pacific with six other priests. On 8.11.1837, after a perilous journey of eleven months, he landed on the Island of Futuna. A description of his success and failure can be found in the 'Catholic Weekly' of 23.4.1970. It tells how on 27.4.1841 a leader of the natives buried his axe in Peter's skull. A hundred and twenty-nine years later (in 1970) his name was added to the list of Church martyrs and to the Universal Calendar. The fruits of his death are apparent in the islands of the Pacific where the Faith is of equal, if not better, quality than in mainland Australia. If the listing of the many Marist priests in this book, (and, of course, they are but a part of Christ's army of servants) has not impressed readers — then that is not the writer's intention. (Not listed in previous Footprints) --- 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 93, 295: St. Peter Chanel, d. 1841 Proto-Martyr of Oceania and of the Society of Mary Oceania Pioneer - First Voyage Futuna He was born in the village of Cuet, Ain, France. He was ordained a diocesan priest and did a few years pastoral work before being in the first group of Marists to make profession before and together with, Fr. Colin. On Christmas Eve in the same year 1836, aged 33, he set out on the "Delphine" with Bishop Pompallier and the first group of Marist priests and brothers to go to the Pacific. After seeing Fr. Pierre Bataillon and Br. Joseph-Xavier Luzy landed at Wallis, they arrived at Futuna on November 8th, 1837. There he disembarked with Br. Marie Nizier Delorme to begin the second Marist mission in Oceania. In spite of many difficulties he managed to convert a small number to the true faith. For that reason he was clubbed to death at Poi, on Futuna, at the age of 38.

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Pierre

Middle Names:

Louis Marie

Preferred Name:

St Peter

Surname:

Chanel

Order:

Date of Birth:

12-Jul-1803

Place of Birth:

La Potière, Montrevel-en-Bresse, Ain

Country of Birth:

France

Date of Ordination:

15-Jul-1827

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

28-Apr-1841

Place of Death:

Futuna

Country of Death:

Overseas

Date of Burial:

Place of Burial:

Reinterred: Futuna

Country of Burial:

Overseas

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/240116866

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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 34:

Chanel, St. Peter, French, Visitor ... in death
Saint of the Pacific
To date the only canonized Saint that was on our shores (and that not in the flesh) was St. Peter Chanel. The chronology relating to the bringing of his remains to Hunters Hill from Futuna Island and New Zealand, thence on to France, is recorded under Fr. Claude Bemin. The heroic life story of the Saint is found in many books and pamphlets, so it will be enough to record the main life details: born in the village of Cras in southern France. Ordained in 1827, he became a curate in Crozet. Seemingly he trained and taught at the Marist College in Belley, and in December 1836 set out for the Pacific with six other priests. On 8.11.1837, after a perilous journey of eleven months, he landed on the Island of Futuna. A description of his success and failure can be found in the 'Catholic Weekly' of 23.4.1970. It tells how on 27.4.1841 a leader of the natives buried his axe in Peter's skull. A hundred and twenty-nine years later (in 1970) his name was added to the list of Church martyrs and to the Universal Calendar. The fruits of his death are apparent in the islands of the Pacific where the Faith is of equal, if not better, quality than in mainland Australia. If the listing of the many Marist priests in this book, (and, of course, they are but a part of Christ's army of servants) has not impressed readers — then that is not the writer's intention.
(Not listed in previous Footprints)

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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 93, 295:

St. Peter Chanel, d. 1841
Proto-Martyr of Oceania and of the Society of Mary
Oceania Pioneer - First Voyage
Futuna
He was born in the village of Cuet, Ain, France. He was ordained a diocesan priest and did a few years pastoral work before being in the first group of Marists to make profession before and together with, Fr. Colin. On Christmas Eve in the same year 1836, aged 33, he set out on the "Delphine" with Bishop Pompallier and the first group of Marist priests and brothers to go to the Pacific. After seeing Fr. Pierre Bataillon and Br. Joseph-Xavier Luzy landed at Wallis, they arrived at Futuna on November 8th, 1837. There he disembarked with Br. Marie Nizier Delorme to begin the second Marist mission in Oceania. In spite of many difficulties he managed to convert a small number to the true faith. For that reason he was clubbed to death at Poi, on Futuna, at the age of 38.

Rev St Peter Chanel SM

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