JOLIVET, CHARLES-CONSTANT. – Born on 9 January 1826 at Pont-l'Abbé, diocese of Quimper, died in Durban on 15 October 1903; in 1848 he became an Oblate of Mary Immaculate.
Until 1867 he was in England as a missionary and parish priest; in 1867 he became assistant general of the Congregation. In 1874 he was appointed apostolic vicar of Natal, which at that time comprised all of southern Africa apart from the two vicariates of the Cape of Good Hope and the prelature of Mozambique. In 1886 the Orange Free State, with Basutoland, and the Transvaal were detached from II. Mgr J. organized ministry among the whites, brought the Trappists in 1882, now the Religious of Mariannhill, for work among the blacks, and began the mission among the Indians.
He worked successfully in the charitable and educational fields and brought in the Sisters of the Holy Cross of Menzingen, the Dominicans who founded their own congregations in Oakford and Newcastle, and the Augustinians of Pont-l'Abbé.