Rev Eugène Didier SM

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Eugène

Middle Names:

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Surname:

Didier

Order:

SM

Date of Birth:

05-Jan-1851

Place of Birth:

Moselle

Country of Birth:

France

Date of Ordination:

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Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

16-Aug-1891

Place of Death:

At sea, Tokelau

Country of Death:

Overseas

Date of Burial:

1891

Place of Burial:

At sea, Tokelau

Country of Burial:

Overseas

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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 140:

Didier, Eugene, SM, French
Shipwreck Victim
This is one more name among 250 Marists who passed through Sydney and/or Melbourne on the way to service in the Pacific. Eugene was born on 5 January 1851 in the Diocese of Metz and made his profession on 10 May 1874. He passed through Sydney in 1878 on the way to Samoa. In 1880 we find him stationed at Apia, Upola Island. Later he served on the Island of Futuna. He visited Sydney again in 1890. In the following year on 16 August he lost his life in a shipwreck. The age was 40.
(Footprints, Vol. 3, No. 9)

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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 177, 297:

Fr. Eugène Didier, d. 1891
Samoa
He was born in Moselle, France in 1851. After formation in France and Ireland, he arrived in Samoa in 1878, aged 27. His missionary life was spent at Apia, where he played a large part in the building of the cathedral. When he was 40, he was lost at sea while on a visitation to Tokelau.