Peter chanel biography
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Peter Chanel
19th-century French Catholic präst, missionary, and martyr
Peter Louis Marie Chanel, SM (12 July 1803 – 28 April 1841), was a Catholic präst, missionary, and martyr. Chanel was a member of the gemenskap of Mary and was sent as a missionär to region i stilla havet. He arrived on the island of Futuna in November 1837. Chanel was clubbed to death in April 1841 at the instigation of a ledare upset because his son converted.
Life
[edit]Early years
[edit]Chanel was born in the by of La Potière nära Montrevel-en-Bresse, Ain département, France. Son of Claude-François Chanel and Marie-Anne Sibellas he was the fifth of eight children. From about the age of 7 to 12 he worked as a shepherd. The local parish priest persuaded his parents to allow Peter to attend a small school the präst had started. After some local schooling, his piety and intelligence attracted the attention of a visiting priest from Cras, the abbé Trompier, who took over the boy's education at Cras in the au
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St. Peter Chanel
Peter Chanel was a French missionary priest, martyred on the Island of Wallis and Futuna, whose body lay in state in the chapel of Villa Maria in Sydney for two weeks en route to France. As the "proto martyr of Oceania" it is fitting that he is patron of the first WYD held in Oceania, inspiring others to be Jesus' "witnesses to the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:8).
Peter Chanel was born on July 12, 1803 in Cuet, France. As a boy his piety and intelligence attracted the attention of the local priest in Cuet, and he was put into a Church-sponsored education program after which he began training in the seminary and was ordained in 1827. In 1831 Peter joined the Marists, who were entrusted with the evangelization of Oceania. Peter served as a professor at the Seminary of Belley for five years and in 1836 was made the superior of a band of Marist missionaries headed for the South West Pacific. They se
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St. Peter Chanel: A missionary to Oceania
When St. Peter Chanel (1803-1841) first applied for his bishop’s permission for missionary work, not long after his 1827 ordination, he was denied and sent to work in a French country parish. For a priest with his gifts and talents, it was no surprise that he revitalized it in a short amount of time. The people came to love him for his charity and care for them, particularly the marginalized and sick.
St. Peter Chanel did not let his desire for the missions die out, however. He had long been drawn to foreign evangelization since he was a young boy, after reading accounts of American missionaries written by the French missionary Bishop Louis Dubourg, who had authority over much of America’s southern states and territories.
A bright and gifted student, St. Peter won a variety of awards that proved his theological and linguistic prowess, making him an ideal candidate for the missions.
In 1831, St. Peter again sought permission to join the