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Rev Joseph Dagod

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Joseph

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Surname:

Dagod

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Date of Birth:

02-Jul-1851

Place of Birth:

Puy-de-Dôme

Country of Birth:

France

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Date of Death:

15-Oct-1918

Place of Death:

Country of Death:

New Caledonia

Date of Burial:

1918

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New Caledonia

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Biographical Notes

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 121:

Dagod, Joseph, SM, French, Visitor
From a Parish of Many Vocations

Joseph is one among many from the parish of Belley who joined the Marist Order. He was born on 2 July 1851 and was professed on 29 June 1879. At the end of that year he called at Sydney en route to the Pacific. Directories indicate that he served at Balade and other missions in New Caledonia. The date of death is given as 15 October 1918 at the age of 67.
(Footprints, Vol. 3, No. 6)
Information: Fr. John Hosie SM, Marist Historian, Sydney.

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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 220, 296:

Fr. Joseph Dagod, d. 1918
New Caledonia - Vanuatu
He was born in Puy-de-Dôme, France in 1851. He was professed in 1879 and arrived that same year in New Caledonia, aged 28. He worked for periods at Noumea, Pouebo, Arama, Bourail as chaplain to the convicts, Bonde and on Belep. He then went to the new Mission in Vanuatu for 2 years, being superior at Wala, a small island off Malekula. He returned to New Caledonia and worked for 8 years at St. Leonard near Tye, Touho, and for short periods at Balade, Belep, Pouebo and finally at Hienghene, where died aged 67.