Chanel

St Peter Chanel.

By brieshaw
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  • Birth

    Born in Cuet, France.

  • Started Seminary Training

  • Seminary Training at Meximieux & Belley

  • Seminary Training in Brou

  • Ordained

    Along with 24 others by Bishop Devie

  • Joined the Society of Mary (Marists)

  • Accompabied Fr. Jean-Claude Colin to Rome to seek approval for the Marists

  • Approval given to Marists by Pope Gregory XVI

  • Marists asked to send missionaries to South Pacific

  • Peter Chanel Officially Declared a Marist

  • Sets out for South Pacific with his band of other Marists.

    The band of fellow Marists he was made superior of soon after his declaration.

  • Travelled to Canary Islands

  • Party member Fr.Claude Bret catches flu-like virus and dies.

  • Travelled to Vaparaiso

  • Travelled to Gambier

  • Travelled to Tahiti

  • Set off to island of Wallis to drop off 2 missionaries

  • Arrived in Futuna

  • Death

    Was clubbed to death on Futuna Island, aged 37, a the hands of Musumusu (one of the King of Futuna's henchmen) and others.

  • All other missionaries on Futuna taken to Wallis