| LC control no. | n 94035087 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Tornay, Maurice, 1910-1949 |
| Associated country | Switzerland China Tibet |
| Associated place | Yunnan Sheng (China) |
| Birth date | 1910-08-31 |
| Death date | 1949-08-11 |
| Place of birth | Valais (Switzerland) |
| Affiliation | Congrégation du Grand-Saint-Bernard |
| Profession or occupation | Missionaries Priests Blessed |
| Special note | Data prepared by the British Library |
| Found in | Marquis-Oggier, Claire. Bienheureux Maurice Tornay. English. Maurice Tornay, a man seized by God, 1993: title page (Maurice Tornay) Bibliothèque nationale de France online catalog, viewed May 22, 2023 (authorized access point: Tornay, Maurice (1910-1949 ; bienheureux); other data in authority record: Swiss missionary; canon regular of the congregation of Grand-Saint-Bernard; born August 31, 1910, in La Rosière, Valais, Switzerland; died August 11, 1949, in the Chola Mountains on the Chinese-Tibetan border; missionary in Yünnan and Tibet; ordained to the Catholic priesthood on April 24, 1938, in Hanoi; in 1945, he was named curé of the parish of Yerkalo, Tibet; expelled from Tibet in 1946, he attempted several times to return to Yerkalo, but was killed in an ambush in 1949) <https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14640300d> |
| Associated language | fre |
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