Rev Marie Bochetazz SM

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Marie

Middle Names:

Isidore

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Bochetazz

Order:

SM

Date of Birth:

02-Mar-1825

Place of Birth:

Cevins

Country of Birth:

France

Date of Ordination:

Place of Ordination:

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Ordination Diocese:

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Date of Death:

01-Oct-1888

Place of Death:

Levuka

Country of Death:

Fiji

Date of Burial:

1888

Place of Burial:

Levuka

Country of Burial:

Fiji

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Sydney PenrithClydesdale School for Islanders1862Linane Vol 1
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Biographical Notes

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

Bochetazz, Marie Isidore, SM, Savoyard, Visitor
Another Unsung Hero
b. 1825 in Cevins; professed 1856; served, after calling at Syd., in Samoa. For a brief period he was at the Clydesdale School for Islanders, near Penrith, in 1862. Further service was given in N.Z., before returning to Levuka, Fiji. d. at Levuka 10.10.1888; age 63.
(Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 6.)
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 211, 294:

Fr Isidore Bochetazz, d. 1888
Fiji
He was born in Haute-Savoie, France in 1825. He was a diocesan priest before being professed a Marist in 1856. He left the following year for Oceania, aged 32. He spent short periods in Samoa, then teaching in the seminary at Clydesdale near Sydney and in New Zealand, before going to the Mission in Fiji. There he founded the Mission at Wairiki on Taveuni in 1864 and continued to build up a Catholic community there for 12 years. Ill health forced him to go to Sydney. On his return he worked at Rewa, before going to Levuka, where he died at the age of 63.