Death of Saintly Missionary

Bishop Nouailles Of

Tahiti

From Our Own Correspondent

Papeete, Aug. 20.

TT is with great regret that we announce the death on August 14, at Papeete, of His Excellence Monseigneur Amedee

Nouailles, Bishop of Furni, Vicaire

Apostolique de Tahiti, Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur.

With his translation has passed one of those saintly lives which have glorified the history of the Church in these is lands. For 32 years, before his elevation to the bishopric, Monseigneur Nouailles w r as stationed in the Tuamotu Islands where he ministered to a parish of widely scattered atolls, voyaging from island to island, in those dangerous seas, on his little cutter Saint Xavier Marie Stella.

He was close to his people: the intimate friend, the wise counsellor, the nurse and physician as well as the spiritual shepherd of his flock.

In his wider duties as bishop, he was constantly voyaging to the various parts of his far-flung diocese. It was while on one of these voyages that he was stricken.

Hurried to Papeete, he arrived here only a few hours before his death.

Bishop Nouailles was one of those of whom it truly can be said “He was well beloved.”