Rev Nicholas Caeseretti OSA

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Nicholas

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Caeseretti

Order:

OSA

Date of Birth:

1829

Place of Birth:

Perugia

Country of Birth:

Italy

Date of Ordination:

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

07-Mar-1869

Place of Death:

Dungarvan, Co Waterford

Country of Death:

Ireland

Date of Burial:

Mar - 1869

Place of Burial:

Dungarvan, Co Waterford

Country of Burial:

Ireland

Find A Grave URL:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/242182098

Appointments Table

Diocese
Place
Role
Start Day
Start Month
Start Year
End Day
End Month
End Year
Source
Melbourne Bendigo18581860Linane, Vol 2
Melbourne Kilmore18601860Advocate, 16 October 1946; Linane, Vol 2
Melbourne Keilor18591859Advocate, Melbourne, 24 November 1949
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Biographical Notes

Shipping Intelligence. Hobson's Bay. Arrived—September 18, The Argus, Melbourne, 20 September 1858, p 4, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7301329:

Saldanha, ship, 1,563 tons, Matthew Flynn, from Liverpool June 12. Passengers—cabin: [...] Rev. Father Nicholas Cesaretti O.S.A., [...]

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Death of Father Caesaretti, Cork Examiner, Ireland, 15 March 1869, p 2:

Last week there were celebrated at the Augustinian Church, Dungarvan, the funeral obsequies of a pious and exemplary priest, who was for many years known and admired in this city. Father Caesaretti was one of those priests who seem to carry the perfume of the sanctuary with them wherever they go; and his holy life was a continual sermon of the highest kind to all who knew him. In Dungarvan, where he had been but a short time, he has been deeply regretted.

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Early History of the Church in Victoria—No. 10. Pioneering Activity of Father Timothy O'Rourke, By Rev. W. Ebsworth, Advocate, Melbourne, 16 October 1946, p 15, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article172231385:

Father Caesaretti
Father O'Rourke's health began to fail rapidly in 1860. Two years earlier he had been relieved of the care of Heathcote, created a separate mission. Then he was given an assistant, Rev. Niccola Caesaretti, an Italian Augustinian from Perugia. [...]

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Memories and Musings, Advocate, Melbourne, 24 November 1949, p 12, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article172507932:

Other priests associated with the Keilor mission were [...] Rev. Nicholas Caesaretti (1859); [...]

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Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 33:
Ceseretti (or Caesaretti) Nicholas, OSA, Italian
First Curate in Bendigo

Quite a number of Augustinians came to the Victorian Mission in the pastorate of Bishop Goold, 1848-1886. Among them the Downings, O'Hea, Bassetto etc. Nicholas Ceseretti was born in Perugia (circa 1828), and was ordained for the Italian Mission. The circumstances of his volunteering for Melbourne Diocese are unknown, but he first appears as a curate to Dr. Henry Backhaus in 1858. The pioneer, Backhaus, had lots of trouble with his curates supposedly misbehaving, and relationships in the old Presbytery were usually anything but cordial. There is no record of a 'clash' with Ceseretti who gave good, zealous service for close on two years. After leaving Bendigo he served for a few months in Kilmore. Still part of the Italian Augustinian Province he went to London in 1860. Some time later he made his way to Ireland, eventually becoming Vicar-Prior of the Augustinian House in Dungarvan, County Wexford. A memorial window and tablet in the Dungarvan House gives his death date as 7 March 1869 and the age as 40.
Ref: MDHC File, Fitzroy, per Father Francis Martin OSA, Dublin University.