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About Help Contact login Bishop Pierre Bataillon SM Title: Bishop First Name: Pierre Middle Names: Preferred Name: Surname: Bataillon Order: SM Date of Birth: 06-Jan-1810 Place of Birth: Loire Country of Birth: France Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: France Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 11-Apr-1877 Place of Death: Wallis Island Country of Death: Overseas Date of Burial: 1877 Place of Burial: Wallis Island Country of Burial: Overseas Find A Grave URL: FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 22: Bataillon, Pierre Marie, Most Rev., SM, French, Visitor "Converted Everyone on Wallis Island" b. Saint Cyr, Lyon Dioc. 1810; professed 1835; ord. 1836; consec. Vicar Apostolic of Central Oceania 1843. Very successful missionary on Wallis Island. Pressed on in establishing a native priesthood, the setting up of a college at Clydesdale (midway between Richmond and Blacktown) being one such move to effect his purpose. All this is well described in a short manuscript submitted to the M.D.H.C. by Rev. J. Hosie, Marist Historian. This is available to readers for the asking. d. 11.4.1877; age 66; interred Wallis Is. (See Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 3) Ref.: As given. --- 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 81, 293: Bishop Pierre Bataillon d. 1877 Oceania Pioneer - First Voyage Wallis and Futuna He was born in Loire, France in 1810. He served as a priest in a country parish for 2 years before being in the first group of Marists to make religious profession before and together with Fr. Colin. On Christmas Eve in the same year 1836, at the age of 26, he set out in "La Delphine" with Peter Chanel and the first group of Marist priests and brothers to go to the Pacific. Together with Br. Joseph-Xavier Luzy, he was the first Marist to receive an appointment in Oceania. The two began the Mission in Wallis. When appointed by Bishop Pompallier, the young Fr. Bataillon said: "I accept with the knowledge of the honour our Bishop does me placing me first in the field of battle". Although the first years were lived in constant danger, by 1842 the whole island was completely Catholic. In 1843 he was ordained in Wallis the first Vicar Apostolic for Central Oceania. A man of imposing presence and inexhaustible energy he worked in his Vicariate with great zeal. He had a firm belief in an immediate need for a local indigenous clergy and set up seminaries in Wallis and Australia for this purpose. The first Polynesian priest was ordained in Rome during his life time, and the first group ordination in Wallis occurred shortly after his death. He died on Wallis at the age of 67, after receiving the last Anointing and Viaticum in his cathedral, surrounded by his people.

Title:

Bishop

First Name:

Pierre

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Bataillon

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Date of Birth:

06-Jan-1810

Place of Birth:

Loire

Country of Birth:

France

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Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

France

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Seminary:

Date of Death:

11-Apr-1877

Place of Death:

Wallis Island

Country of Death:

Overseas

Date of Burial:

1877

Place of Burial:

Wallis Island

Country of Burial:

Overseas

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Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 22:

Bataillon, Pierre Marie, Most Rev., SM, French, Visitor
"Converted Everyone on Wallis Island"
b. Saint Cyr, Lyon Dioc. 1810; professed 1835; ord. 1836; consec. Vicar Apostolic of Central Oceania 1843. Very successful missionary on Wallis Island. Pressed on in establishing a native priesthood, the setting up of a college at Clydesdale (midway between Richmond and Blacktown) being one such move to effect his purpose. All this is well described in a short manuscript submitted to the M.D.H.C. by Rev. J. Hosie, Marist Historian. This is available to readers for the asking. d. 11.4.1877; age 66; interred Wallis Is.
(See Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 3)
Ref.: As given.

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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 81, 293:

Bishop Pierre Bataillon d. 1877
Oceania Pioneer - First Voyage
Wallis and Futuna
He was born in Loire, France in 1810. He served as a priest in a country parish for 2 years before being in the first group of Marists to make religious profession before and together with Fr. Colin. On Christmas Eve in the same year 1836, at the age of 26, he set out in "La Delphine" with Peter Chanel and the first group of Marist priests and brothers to go to the Pacific. Together with Br. Joseph-Xavier Luzy, he was the first Marist to receive an appointment in Oceania. The two began the Mission in Wallis. When appointed by Bishop Pompallier, the young Fr. Bataillon said: "I accept with the knowledge of the honour our Bishop does me placing me first in the field of battle". Although the first years were lived in constant danger, by 1842 the whole island was completely Catholic. In 1843 he was ordained in Wallis the first Vicar Apostolic for Central Oceania. A man of imposing presence and inexhaustible energy he worked in his Vicariate with great zeal. He had a firm belief in an immediate need for a local indigenous clergy and set up seminaries in Wallis and Australia for this purpose. The first Polynesian priest was ordained in Rome during his life time, and the first group ordination in Wallis occurred shortly after his death. He died on Wallis at the age of 67, after receiving the last Anointing and Viaticum in his cathedral, surrounded by his people.

Bishop Pierre Bataillon SM

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