Rev Auguste Fleury SJ
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Auguste
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Fleury
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SJ
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Delemont, Bern
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Switzerland
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Sevenhill SA
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Australia
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Sevenhill SA
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Australia
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Biographical Notes
Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017:
Fleury, Augustus
Missionary, pastor; born Delemont, Bern, 15 January 1855; died Sevenhill, South Australia, 29 January 1931, aged 76.
Augustus Fleury entered the Society at St.Andrä, 31 October 1873, and after rhetoric in the same place, 1876-77, went to Posen for philosophy, 1878-1880. From 1881-84 he taught French and was prefect of boarders at the Kalksburg College, and again, 1888-97. Theology studies were at Innsbruck, 1885-87, and he was professed of the four vows, 2 February 1891.
Fleury was sent to the Australian mission, arriving, 6 December 1898, and was immediately posted to the Northern Territory to work with the aborigines. A few years after the closure of this mission station, Fleury spent a year at Riverview, and a few years at Sevenhill, before working in the Richmond parish, 1905-16. He returned to Sevenhill, 1916-21 and 1928-31, and worked in the Richmond parish, 1921-28.
(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)