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Reverend
Alexis John Augustine Bachelot, SS.CC., P.A., (
February 22,
1796 -
December 5,
1837) was a member of the
Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a Roman Catholic priest and the
Prefect Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands (present Hawaii).
Biography
He was born in
Saint-Cyr-la-Rosière,
Orne,
France. He entered the novitiate of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in
1811 and professed on
February 22,
1813. After completion of his theological studies at the Irish College in Paris, he was ordained to the presbyterate in
1820.
In
1825,
Pope Leo XII appointed Father Bachelot as the Prefect of the newly-created Prefecture Apostolic of the
Sandwich Islands. This prefecture would later be incorporated (along with the Prefectures Apostolic of Tahiti and the Marquesas) into the
Vicariate Apostolic of Oriental Oceania by the
Holy See. He was assisted in his new position by Fathers
Patrick Short and
Abraham Armand and six
lay brothers. They sailed from France on
La Comète on
November 21,
1826 and arrived in
Valparaíso,
Chile, on
February 8,
1827. They left Valparaíso on
February 25,
1827, and after making two short stops at
Arequipa and
Lima, they arrived in
Honolulu on
July 9,
1827.
After laboring for a short time in Hawai‘i, Father Bachelot was expelled from the Hawaiian Islands and ministered for a short time at
Mission San Gabriel Arcangel near
Los Angeles. In
1828, he planted the seeds of the
algaroba tree (
Prosopis sp.) from France.
In
1837 he left Hawaii in the company of Father (later Bishop)
Louis Maigret. His destination when he left Honolulu for the last time was the
South Seas. He died at sea on
December 5,
1837, and was buried by Father Maigret on
Pohnpei in the
Senyavin Islands of the
Federated States of Micronesia.
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