Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. V, 1950 Missions Missionaries and missiologists

Garin, André-Marie

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GARIN, ANDRÉ-MARIE. - Missionary, b. at Côte-St-André, diocese of Grenoble, on 7 May 1822, d. at Lowell (United States) on 16 Feb. 1905. In 1842 he entered the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, in 1844 he went to Canada, and in 1845 he was ordained a priest. Together with Fr. Flavien Durocher (1800-76) and Fr. Jean Laverlochère (1812-84), he worked for 12 years among the Indians of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, of Hudson Bay and of the St-Maurice River.

He published with Fr. Laverlochère a catechism, a manual of prayers and hymns, and sacred discourses in the Maslegon language. In 1857 he moved to work among the French Canadians in the United States.

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BIBL.: Notices eideologiques O.M.I., VII, Bar-le-Duc 1899, pp. 406-21; Streit, Bibl., III, p. 786.

Giovanni Rommerskirchen

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), col. 1943.

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Rommerskirchen, Giovanni. “Garin, andré-marie.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 1943. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/garin-andre-marie.

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Rommerskirchen, Giovanni. “Garin, andré-marie.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1943. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/garin-andre-marie.

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  author    = {Rommerskirchen, Giovanni},
  title     = {Garin, andré-marie},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {V},
  pages     = {1943},
  note      = {Cited by column},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
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