MARIE EPHREM OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS. - In the world Luciano Garrelon. Discalced Carmelite, missionary and bishop, b. 18 or 19 Nov. 1827 at Casteljaloux (Lot-et-Garonne), in France, d. 10 Apr. 1873 at Mangalore (India). Ordained priest (1850), he entered the Order of Discalced Carmelites and professed there on 17 May 1855. Sent to the mission of Mangalore, he first worked in the station of Mahé (1860-62) as parish priest, then in the city of Calicut (1862-64) and Cannanore.

He later governed the mission of Quilon as pro-vicar apostolic (1856), then as vicar apostolic, appointed on 24 July 1868, with the title of bishop of Nemesi in partibus, opening many schools and a seminary for the native clergy. He assisted, in 1869-70, at the Vatican Council and on 3 July 1870 was appointed vicar apostolic of Mangalore. Having returned from Rome, he introduced into that region the Carmelite Tertiary Sisters ("The Apostolic Carmel of Mangalore") for the education of girls, and also founded the first monastery of Carmelite nuns of the Second Order.

Bibliography

BIBL.: Ambrosius a S. Teresin, De Praesulibus Missionis Mangalorem, in Analecta O.C.D., 29 (1947), pp. 94-100.

Ambrogio di S. Teresa

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Marie Ephrem of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

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