{"id":2369,"date":"2015-05-22T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkpdefunts.smainternational.info\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2015-05-22T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T14:46:08","slug":"le-pere-daniel-joseph-o-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/?p=2369","title":{"rendered":"Le P\u00e8re Daniel Joseph O\u2019SULLIVAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Missions Africaines \u2013 Province d\u2019Irlande<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"O<\/td>\nn\u00e9 le 13 janvier 1858 \u00e0 Killermury
dans le dioc\u00e8se de Cork, Irlande
membre de la SMA le 24 d\u00e9cembre 1882
pr\u00eatre le 25 juillet 1885
d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 13 juillet 1930<\/td>\n		\n

1885-1888 missionnaire en Egypte
1888 conf\u00e9rencier et grand qu\u00eateur pour le grand s\u00e9minaire
de Lyon : il parcourt l\u2019Australie, les Etats-Unis,
le Canada, l\u2019Angleterre, l\u2019Irlande, l\u2019Argentine<\/p>\n

d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 Marseille, France, le 13 juillet 1930,
\u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 72 ans<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Le p\u00e8re Daniel O’SULLIVAN (1858 – 1930)<\/p>\n

A Marseille, le 13 juillet 1930, retour \u00e0 Dieu du p\u00e8re Daniel O’Sullivan, \u00e0 l’\u00e2ge de 72 ans.<\/p>\n

Daniel O’Sullivan naquit dans le dioc\u00e8se de Cork en 1858. Il remplissait les fonctions de ma\u00eetre d’\u00e9cole dans un faubourg de Cork, quand, d\u00e9sirant \u00eatre pr\u00eatre et missionnaire, il se pr\u00e9senta au p\u00e8re Devoucoux, lequel lan\u00e7ait les premi\u00e8res maisons d’Irlande. Daniel se mit avec ardeur \u00e0 l’\u00e9tude du latin, et d\u00e8s 1881 arrivait \u00e0 Lyon. Il y fit le serment \u00e0 No\u00ebl 1882 et fut ordonn\u00e9 pr\u00eatre en 1885.<\/p>\n

Le p\u00e8re O’Sullivan partit pour l’Egypte et fut nomm\u00e9 professeur \u00e0 Tanta. La Soci\u00e9t\u00e9, comme la mission d’Egypte, souffrait alors d’une situation bien difficile au point de vue financier. En 1888, le p\u00e8re O’Sullivan commen\u00e7a sa vie de qu\u00eateur, vie qui sera la sienne d\u00e9sormais pendant pr\u00e8s de 40 ans.<\/p>\n

Le p\u00e8re O’Sullivan va faire plusieurs fois le tour de la terre. Ses qu\u00eates vont le mener plusieurs fois en Australie, Nouvelle-Z\u00e9lande, Tasmanie, Etats-Unis, Angleterre, Irlande, Argentine, etc. Il traversa 27 fois la M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e, 38 fois l’Atlantique, 11 fois l’Oc\u00e9an Indien. Il eut des succ\u00e8s, mais aussi des d\u00e9boires. Il s’acquit comme conf\u00e9rencier une grande r\u00e9putation. Ses talents d’\u00e9crivain lui ouvraient les pages de nombreux journaux et revues, et il laissa en mourant des brochures inspir\u00e9es par ses voyages ou l’histoire de nos missions.<\/p>\n

A l’\u0153uvre que lui avaient confi\u00e9e ses sup\u00e9rieurs, il se donna de tout c\u0153ur et avec un grand d\u00e9vouement. Ce que sa parole ne pouvait plus donner, lors de ses derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, il le demandait \u00e0 sa plume ou plut\u00f4t \u00e0 sa petite machine \u00e0 \u00e9crire qui, comme lui, avait fait le tour du monde.<\/p>\n

En 1927, le p\u00e8re O’Sullivan se retirait \u00e0 La Croix, continuant sur son lit de malade \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0taper\u00a0\u00bb de nombreuses lettres qui lui permettaient de continuer son m\u00e9tier de qu\u00eateur.<\/p>\n

En ce que Dieu lui avait demand\u00e9 de faire, il fut un fid\u00e8le ouvrier.<\/p>\n

Father Daniel J. O’SULLIVAN (1858 – 1930)<\/p>\n

Daniel O’Sullivan was born in Kilmurray, in the diocese of Cork, on 18 January 1858. He died at Marseille, France, on 13 July 1930.<\/p>\n

Daniel was a school-master in Cork city when in 1880, wishing to become a missionary priest, he approached Francois Devoucoux, first S.M.A. superior in Ireland. With great energy Daniel undertook the study of Latin at the Society’s apostolic school on the Blackrock Road, Cork, so as to be able to present himself at the major seminary, on Cours Gambetta, Lyon (France) in the autumn of 1881. He took his oath of Society membership at Christmas, 1882, and was ordained a priest, in the seminary chapel at Lyon, on 25 July 1885. Two other Irishmen were ordained on the same occasion, Andrew Dornan and Michael John Healy. When the Irish Province of the Society was formed in 1912 Daniel remained attached to the Generalate and was incorporated into the Lyon Province when it was founded in 1927.<\/p>\n

After ordination Daniel was appointed to the staff of St. Louis college, Tantah (near Cairo), Egypt. St. Louis was a ‘French’ college, with some 120 secondary school pupils who received tuition through the medium of French. However there was an increasing clamour among the people for English, because this was required for entrance into government service, and was becoming increasingly the language of commerce. Irish S.M.A. priests and students were assigned to St. Louis to meet these demands, and it was to this ministry that Daniel was appointed. Daniel remained at St. Louis until 1888. At that time the Society, as well as the Egyptian mission, was in the throes of a serious financial crisis. Daniel was called upon to take up the role of fund-raiser and promoter for the Society, a task he was to discharge with great distinction for over 40 years. He collected throughout the world, visiting several times Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, the U.S.A., England, Ireland, and Argentina.<\/p>\n

He is known to have traversed the Mediterranean 27 times and the Atlantic 38 times. He crossed the Indian Ocean 11 times. Daniel acquired the name of being a ‘conferencier de grand reputation’, holding his audiences spellbound with his descriptions of missionary life and galvanising their support for the work. His talents as a writer were no less considerable; his output was prolific, to be found in numerous revues, magazines and journals of the period; he also had published several pamphlets and brochures inspired by his journeys and by the history of the Society’s missions. Among the titles published under his name were the following: What we have accomplished on the Guinea Coast, on the Niger River, and by the Banks of the Nile; The S.M.A. – its heroic work of Charity in Africa; Homeward through Egypt; and The Land of the Pyramids and the White Man’s Grave.<\/p>\n

In 1927 Fr. O’Sullivan fell into poor health and in hope of a recovery he took up residence in the S.M.A. sanatorium at La Croix, Var, France. There, from his sick bed, he continued to type out promotional material and, above all, letters to benefactors. However, his health deteriorated and he was hospitalised in Marseille. He spent his last days with the sisters at St. Joseph’s nursing home, in Marseille. Preserved in the archives of the Irish Province at Blackrock Road there is an account of Daniel’s last days written by the Superior General, Jean-Marie Chabert, to Denis’ brother. ‘Fr. O’Sullivan who, as you know, was being taken care of in our sanatorium, had of late expressed his desire to have a change, complaining that the climate of La Croix was too hot for him. He was then brought to Marseille and placed in a clinical hospital to receive there a special treatment. But his health, instead of improving, soon became very bad. He was then carried to St. Joseph’s and entrusted to the care of the good sisters in charge of the hospital. One of our priests in residence at Marseille used to visit him often. It was soon obvious that, owing to the bad condition of the heart and of the liver, the good Father’s life would not last long. He was then fortified with the last sacraments of the Church, submitted to the will of God, took up the cross of his agony and breathed his last. He was buried in the presence of the vicar general of the S.M.A., Edouard Lacqueyrie, the superior of our seminary at Lyons, Joseph Delhommel, and the priests of the procure’.<\/p>\n

He is buried in Saint Pierre Cemetery, in the Commune of Marseille, France. (Daniel was a member of the Lyons Province. He did not join the Irish Province)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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