LC control no. | no2020038726 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Lemaître, Alexis, 1864-1939 |
Associated country | France Tunisia |
Associated place | Mali Burkina Faso Algeria |
Birth date | 1864-03-30 |
Death date | 1939-05-16 |
Place of birth | Onlay (France) |
Place of death | Tunis (Tunisia) |
Affiliation | White Fathers Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Carthage |
Profession or occupation | Missionaries Clergy Bishops |
Found in | Un grand prélat Morvandeau, Monseigneur Alexis Lemaître, Archevêque de Carthage, Primat d'Afrique (1864-1939), 1976: title page (Alexis Lemaître (1864-1939)) pages 5-17 (born 30 March 1864 in Onlay, village of Morvan-nivernais [département de la Nièvre]; studied at Grand Séminaire de Nevers; requested twice a year, for 17 years, to enter a missionary order; ordained priest 1888; priest of Breves in 1892; priest of Guerigny in 1896; in 1900 he was given permission to join the Pères Blancs at Maison Carrée; a year later he was sent to Ghardaia, southern Algeria; in 1904 he was assigned direction of St-Joseph de Thibar [Tunisia]; in 1911 the vicariats of the Sahara and of Soudan français were added to the archbishopric of St-Louis de Carthage, and so began the Soudan phase; he served in Ségou, Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso, among the Bambaras and the Mossis; because of his use of a small motorcycle he was known as the "Père du Poupoupou"; he founded the post of Bamako, then four other posts including Gouecke, near Liberia; he argued before Governor Clauzel in Dakar that the barriers against [Catholic] schools needed to be lifted, that anticlericalism in these locales was contrary to the interests of France, 'neither Christian, nor French!', and with that, schools multiplied; he created a Congrégation de Soeurs Noires who helped the Soeurs Blanches to care for the sick and to teach children; he required missionaries and nuns to learn native languages; contracted amoebic dysentery which ruined his health, sent back to France in 1916, slowly recovered; assigned role of Général Inspecteur des Troupes Noires by Clemenceau; in 1919 Mgr Lemaître returned to the Soudan; in 1920, assigned by Benedict XV to Carthage, as coadjutor to Mgr Combes, unprecedented for a Père Blanc; on 26 October 1920 he was officially Archevêque de Cabasa (Egypt) and coadjutor to the Archevêque de Carthage, Mgr Combes, and succeeded him upon Combes' death in January 1922; hosted the Congrès Eucharistique International (1930) in Carthage; died 16 May 1939 in Tunis, from an embolism) |
Associated language | fre |