Rev Jean Bernard SM

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Rev

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Jean

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Simon

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Bernard

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SM

Date of Birth:

09-Jun-1807

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Loire-Atlantique

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Fiji

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Date of Death:

11-May-1876

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Appointments Table

Diocese
Place
Role
Start Day
Start Month
Start Year
End Day
End Month
End Year
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Auckland Maori Mission18431850Linane Vol 1
Wellington Akaroa18501851Linane Vol 1
Wellington Wanganui River18511852Linane Vol 1
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Biographical Notes

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 25:

Bernard, Jean Simon, SM, French
Shipwreck Victim
b. in Nantes Diocese 9.6.1807; professed 13.7.1842. Arr. N.Z. in Feb. 1843. Served on Maori Mission in Auck1and Province '43-'50. Akaroa 1850-1; pioneer in Wanganui River 1851-2. Went to New Caledonia. Drowned at sea, circumstances unknown, on 11.5.1876. Age 68.
(See Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 4)
Ref.: Rev. J. Hosie SM, Church Hill, Sydney, and Marist Year Book of Australia & New Zealand 1927.

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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 106, 293:

Fr Jean-Simon Bernard d. 1876
Samoa - New Caledonia
He was born in Loire-Atlantique, France in 1807. He was a diocesan priest before he was professed a Marist in 1842 at the age of 35. He left the following month for Oceania. He was a member of the last group of Marists sent by Fr. Colin to New Zealand. From 1844 until 1849, he worked in Tauranga, before transferring to the new diocese of Wellington. In 1852 he left New Zealand and was the first missionary assigned to the Falefa district in Samoa in 1853. In 1857 he began the mission on Ouvea in the Loyalty islands. He remained there for 16 years and left interesting Notes on the beginnings of the Church there and the local traditions. He then went to Belep, Ile Ouen and Bonde. He was lost at sea off Pam in the North, at the age of 69.