Rev Marie Breton SM

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Marie

Middle Names:

Joseph

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Breton

Order:

SM

Date of Birth:

11-Oct-1815

Place of Birth:

Ain

Country of Birth:

France

Date of Ordination:

Place of Ordination:

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Date of Death:

05-May-1881

Place of Death:

Vavau

Country of Death:

Tonga

Date of Burial:

1881

Place of Burial:

Country of Burial:

Tonga

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Biographical Notes

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 34:

Breton, Marie Joseph, SM, French, Visitor, Golden Jubilarian
b. Belley Dioc., 1815; professed '53; passed through Syd. '58. Served all the time in Tonga. d. 5.5.1881; age 65. Burial: Vavau, Tonga.
(Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 8)
Ref.: Marist Missionaries to the Pacific 1837-1900 - an appendix to the 'Marist Fathers in Australia', by Fr. John Hosie SM, M.A. Thesis, Syd. 1971.

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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 99, 294:

Fr. Marin Breton d. 1881
Tonga
He was born in Ain, France in 1815. After 13 years as a diocesan priest he entered the Marist novitiate and was professed in 1853. In 1858, aged 43, he arrived in Tonga. He founded there the station at Hihifo. After 5 years he was sent to Vava'u, an island at that time completely Methodist. He lived there alone for 18 years and became known as "the hermit of Vava'u". He lived a life of solitude, before the Blessed Sacrament, in outstanding holiness after the manner of St. Charles de Foucauld. He died there on Vava'u at the age of 66.