Augustin Planque

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Augustin Planque

Augustin Planque (born July 25, 1826 in Chemy , † August 21, 1907 in Lyon ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman and founder of the order.

life and work

The priest

Planque, a northern French from the Lille area , grew up as the eldest boy of 10 siblings. From 1841 he attended seminary schools in Cambrai . Under the supervision of Bishop Pierre Giraud , he had Amand-Joseph Fava (1826-1899, from 1875 Bishop of Grenoble-Vienne ) as a classmate. After a brief activity in Marcq-en-Baroeul , he was ordained a priest in 1850 and worked in Bergues and Arras .

The head of the Africa missions

In 1856 he followed a call from the mission bishop Melchior de Marion-Brésillac to found the Society of Africa Missions . He went to Lyon and was a co-founder there. When Upper Marion-Brésillac died in Africa in 1859, Planque was recognized by the Vatican as his successor. He headed the company from Lyon for 48 years with great energy, but never came to black Africa himself (though seven times to Egypt) and also did not achieve the dignity of a bishop (successor: Paul Pellet ).

The founder of the Sisters of the Apostles

To supplement the mission with female forces, he founded the Sisters of Notre Dame of the Apostles in 1876 and settled them in Vénissieux in the diocese of his friend Fava in 1881 . His missionary principles included language learning, acculturation, and the establishment of a native black priesthood. At his death there were 45 mission posts with 168 missionaries and 87 sisters. He left 12,000 letters. In Lome ( Togo ) a school is named after him.

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