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About Help Contact login Rev Jean Anliard SM Title: Rev First Name: Jean Middle Names: Baptiste Preferred Name: Surname: Anliard Order: SM Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1814 Place of Birth: Puy-de-Dôme Country of Birth: France Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 1852 Place of Death: Country of Death: New Caledonia Date of Burial: Place of Burial: Country of Burial: New Caledonia Find A Grave URL: FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 17: Anliard, Jean Baptiste, SM (Visitor) A Missing Person in the Pacific b. Clermont Diocese 1813; professed 1848; New Caledonia Mission; reached Tikopia in Dec. 1851 but went missing with Father Gilbert Roudaire in 1852; probably taken off a whaling vessel after contracting malaria, or else shipwrecked. (See Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 2 and note (V) revised caption) Ref.: M.D.H.C. Files (Torquay), holding correspondence from Dr. Hugh Laracy, Historian, Auckland University, and from Rev. J. Hosie SM, Marist Historian. --- 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 234, 293: Fr Jean-Baptiste Anliard d. 1852 Pioneer - Tikopia Mission He was born in Puy-de-Dôme, France 1814. He was professed a Marist in 1848 and left immediately, aged 34, to join the missionaries of New Caledonia, who at that time were on Anatom in Vanuatu. With them he successfully founded the mission of the Isle of Pines. He was then involved in the second attempt to get the mission established in Hienghene. After this failed, there was a withdrawal from Yate. In 1851 he went on the ill-fated expedition to Tikopia with Fr. Gilbert Roudaire, but they were never heard of again. Their fate remains uncertain, but recent historical research now strongly indicates that he and his companion arrived safely, and that after the later arrival of Br. Michel Anliard - a blood brother of Jean-Baptiste - the three of them were killed by the local people. A burial site has been tentatively identified. He was aged 38.

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Rev

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Jean

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Baptiste

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Anliard

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16-Oct-1814

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Puy-de-Dôme

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France

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1852

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New Caledonia

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New Caledonia

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Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 17:

Anliard, Jean Baptiste, SM (Visitor)
A Missing Person in the Pacific
b. Clermont Diocese 1813; professed 1848; New Caledonia Mission; reached Tikopia in Dec. 1851 but went missing with Father Gilbert Roudaire in 1852; probably taken off a whaling vessel after contracting malaria, or else shipwrecked.
(See Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 2 and note (V) revised caption)
Ref.: M.D.H.C. Files (Torquay), holding correspondence from Dr. Hugh Laracy, Historian, Auckland University, and from Rev. J. Hosie SM, Marist Historian.

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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 234, 293:

Fr Jean-Baptiste Anliard d. 1852
Pioneer - Tikopia Mission
He was born in Puy-de-Dôme, France 1814. He was professed a Marist in 1848 and left immediately, aged 34, to join the missionaries of New Caledonia, who at that time were on Anatom in Vanuatu. With them he successfully founded the mission of the Isle of Pines. He was then involved in the second attempt to get the mission established in Hienghene. After this failed, there was a withdrawal from Yate. In 1851 he went on the ill-fated expedition to Tikopia with Fr. Gilbert Roudaire, but they were never heard of again. Their fate remains uncertain, but recent historical research now strongly indicates that he and his companion arrived safely, and that after the later arrival of Br. Michel Anliard - a blood brother of Jean-Baptiste - the three of them were killed by the local people. A burial site has been tentatively identified. He was aged 38.

Rev Jean Anliard SM

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