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unusual facts about Paris Foreign Missions Society


Chiba Takusaburō

After Yasui Sokken's death ten months after Takusaburō's admission, Takusaburō left to study under French Catholic priest Father François Paulin Vigroux, a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society who had traveled to Japan in 1873.


Brothers of Mercy of Mary Help of Christians

The following year, the Archbishop of Malacca and Singpore, the Most Rev. Michel Olçomendy, M.E..P., invited the Brothers to provide health services to the migrant population of Malaya.

Jean-Baptiste Urrutia

Jean-Baptiste Urrutia (born 6 November 1901, Les Aduldes, Basses-Pyrénées, France – died 15 January 1979, Montbeton, France) was a French Roman Catholic missionary from the Paris Foreign Missions Society.

Mary of the Passion

Growth reached a point where she was able to staff a new convent in Oocatamund (Udhagamandalam), Tamil Nadu, a popular hill station deep in the Nilgiri mountains, located in the Vicariate Apostolic of Diocese of Coimbatore, established under the authority of the Paris Foreign Missions Society.


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