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.
literature
- Léon Cristiani: Un grand Africain, le TRP Augustin Planque (1826–1907). Sœurs missionnaires de Notre-Dame des Apôtres . Vénissieux 1956.
- Claude-Marie Échallier: L'audace et la foi d'un apôtre. Augustin Planque (1826–1907), cofondateur et premier supérieur général de la Société des Missions Africaines, fondateur des Sœurs de Notre-Dame des Apôtres . Karthala, Paris 1995.
- Claude-Marie Échallier: Augustin Planque (1826-1907). La ténacité au service des missions africaines. In: Histoire et missions chrétiennes 2, 2007, pp. 31-44
- Yannick Essertel: L'aventure missionnaire lyonnaise 1815–1962 . Cerf, Paris 2001, pp. 76-82.
- Patrick Gantly: Mission en Afrique de l'Ouest. L'histoire de la Société des Missions Africaines (SMA), 1856–1907 . SMA, Rome 2006.
Web links
- Literature by and about Augustin Planque in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Information on Augustin Planque in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Biographical note on the website of the Sisters of the Apostles, French
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Planque, Augustine |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Roman Catholic clergyman and founder of the order |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1826 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemy |
DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 1907 |
Place of death | Lyon |