Rev François Boltz

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François

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Boltz

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17-Jan-1863

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Moselle

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France

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08-Jan-1895

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Samoa

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Biographical Notes

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 27-28:

Boltz, Francois, French, Visitor
'Pretre' Boltz arr. Melb. 31.10.1888 on the 'Oceanien' from Marseilles. (Shipping Lists, Melb. Public Library). b. 1863 in Metz Diocese; professed 1885; served in Samoa where he died on 8.1.1895; age 32.
(Not prev. listed in Footprints.)
Ref.: Fr. John Hosie, Marist Historian, Church Hill, Syd.

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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 13, 294:

Fr François Boltz, d. 1895
Samoa
He was born in Moselle, France in 1863. He was professed in the Society in 1885 and ordained after completing seminary studies in Ireland. He went to Samoa in 1888 aged 25. After working in Pago Pago, Manono and Apia, he contracted tuberculosis and died at the young age of 32.