Rev Casimir Bouzigue SM

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Casimir

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Bouzigue

Order:

SM

Date of Birth:

26-Feb-1846

Place of Birth:

Gard

Country of Birth:

Fiji

Date of Ordination:

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

France

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

01-Sep-1907

Place of Death:

Lano, Wallis Island

Country of Death:

Overseas

Date of Burial:

Place of Burial:

Lano, Wallis Island

Country of Burial:

Overseas

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Biographical Notes

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 29:

Bouzique, Casimir, SM, French, Visitor
b. 1846 in Nimes Dioc.; professed '71; passing through Syd. on way to mission in Central Oceania. Served mainly on Wallis Is., where he died 1.2.1907; age 60.
(Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 6.)
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 32, 294:

Fr. Casimir Bouzigue, d. 1901 Wallis and Futuna
He was born in Gard, France in 1846. He was ordained aged 25 and left the following year for Oceania, in 1872. On his arrival in Wallis, Bishop Bataillon appointed him to restart the seminary in Lano. For many years he was the sole teacher there. His long and difficult work was crowned when in 1886 the first 4 of his students were ordained priests by Bishop Lamaze. They were three Wallisians and one Futunian and these were the first ordinations to the priesthood in Oceania. Although handicapped with elephantiasis, he continued teaching in the seminary and helping in the parish. He spent his entire 35 years in Lano. He died aged 61.