Isidore Clut
Isidore Clut OMI (born February 11, 1832 in Saint-Rambert-d'Albon , France , † July 9, 1903 in Saint-Bernard , Alberta , Canada ) was a French religious and Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Athabasca Mackenzie .
Life
Isidore Clut attended the Episcopal Boys' Seminary in Valence from 1848 . He joined the Order of the Oblates of the Immaculate Virgin Mary on December 3, 1853 , was clothed on December 8 of the same year and made his first profession on December 8, 1854 in the Scholastic Institute in Montolivet . On June 8, 1856, Clut received the tonsure in the private chapel of the founder of the order Eugen von Mazenod .
Isidore Clut went on June 3, 1857 in Liverpool on board the North American on the crossing to Canada, where he arrived in Québec on June 14 of the same year . The Bishop of Saint-Boniface , Alexandre-Antonin Taché OMI, ordained him on 29 June 1857 in the Church of Saint-Pierre in Montreal for sub-deacon , November 29, in the church Saint-Norbert to Deacon donated and on 20 December he he finally received the sacrament of ordination in the cathedral of Saint-Boniface .
On June 4, 1858, Clut went to the mission station Nativité . For this he crossed together with Father Kearney on a barge of the Hudson's Bay Company to Winnipeg and drove the Saskatchewan River up to the point where the waters of the Hudson Bay share. From there he drove down the Athabasca River to the Nativité mission station in Fort Chipewyan , where he arrived on August 7, 1858. Isidore Clut learned the local Indian languages. In March and April 1859 he undertook his first snowshoe expeditions with the tribe of the Caribou Eaters of Fond-du-Lac . In 1861, Clut left the Nativité mission station due to illness .
On August 3, 1864, Pope Pius IX appointed him . the titular bishop of Arindela and auxiliary bishop in Athabasca Mackenzie. The Apostolic Vicar of Athabasca Mackenzie, Henri Joseph Faraud OMI, gave him on 15 August 1865 in Athabasca , the episcopal ordination . Until 1868, Clut undertook further expeditions and took a small boat down the Peace River to Fort Vermilion . In 1869 Isidore Clut returned to Europe, where he attended the First Vatican Council and collected donations for the continuation of his missionary work in Canada.
On April 9, 1870, Isidore Clut left Brest for Canada. He reached the mission station Nativité again on October 9 of the same year . Immediately afterwards he drove up the Slave River to Fort Resolution . He arrived at Fort Providence on November 27, 1870 . In 1872, Clut went on a missionary trip to the Bering Sea . On September 11 of the same year he reached Fort Good Hope , from where he continued on September 14 to the confluence of the Peel River with the Mackenzie River . Isidore Clut reached Fort McPherson and on October 13, 1872 Fort Yukon , where he proselytized the Gwich'in and Inuit . On May 15, 1873, he arrived in Nuklukayet and later in Nulato . He reached the Bering Sea on June 19 of the same year before starting his way back on July 1.
In 1875 Clut visited Fort Vermilion, in 1875 Fort Simpson and in 1876 the Liard mission station . He then returned to France for some time before going to Fort Rae in the Tlicho area in 1880 . After Isidore Clut settled in Fort Providence in 1882, he wanted to visit Fort Good Hope again in 1885, but had to be hospitalized in Montreal. For the purpose of recovery, Clut traveled to France in 1889. On September 26, 1890, Isidore Clut resigned as auxiliary bishop in Athabasca Mackenzie. He returned to Athabasca and settled in Saint-Bernard on the Little Slave Lake , where he died on July 9, 1903. His grave is in the Grouard Mission Cemetery .
literature
- Claude Roche: Monseigneur du Grand Nord. Isidore Clut, évêque-missionnaire, coureur des bois, chez les Indiens et les Esquimaux du Nord-Ouest américain (de 1858 à 1903). Ouest France Verlag, Rennes 1989, ISBN 2-7373-0403-2 .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clut, Isidore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French religious, Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Athabasca Mackenzie |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Rambert-d'Albon , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1903 |
| Place of death | Saint-Bernard , Alberta , Canada |