{"id":2604,"date":"2015-06-25T09:53:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T09:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkpdefunts.smainternational.info\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2015-06-25T09:53:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T09:53:33","slug":"le-pere-jeremiah-moran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/?p=2604","title":{"rendered":"Le P\u00e8re Jeremiah MORAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Missions Africaines \u2013 Province d’Irlande<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"MORAN<\/td>\nn\u00e9 en 1859 \u00e0 Ballinree
dans le dioc\u00e8se de Killaloe, Irlande
membre de la SMA le 10 juin 1881
pr\u00eatre le 28 juillet 1884
d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 7 ao\u00fbt 1887<\/td>\n		\n

1884-1887 missionnaire au vicariat du Dahomey
1884-1885, Agou\u00e9
1885-1887, Adangb\u00e9, puis Atakpam\u00e9
il meurt empoisonn\u00e9<\/p>\n

d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 Atakpam\u00e9, Togo, le 7 ao\u00fbt 1887,
\u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 28 ans<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Le p\u00e8re Jeremiah MORAN (1859 – 1887)<\/p>\n

A Atakpam\u00e9 (Togo), le 7 ao\u00fbt 1887, retour \u00e0 Dieu du p\u00e8re Jeremiah Moran, \u00e0 l’\u00e2ge de 28 ans.<\/p>\n

Jeremiah Moran naquit \u00e0 Ballinree, dans le dioc\u00e8se de Killaloe (Irlande), en 1859. Il fit ses \u00e9tudes \u00e0 Cork et \u00e0 Lyon, o\u00f9 il arrivait en 1879. Il fit le serment en juin 1881 et fut ordonn\u00e9 pr\u00eatre en juillet 1884. Au mois de septembre suivant, le p\u00e8re Moran partait pour la pr\u00e9fecture du Dahomey.<\/p>\n

Nomm\u00e9 \u00e0 Agou\u00e9, il se met \u00e0 apprendre le gengb\u00e9, au lieu du portugais, car, disait-il, \u00ab\u00a0les trois quarts de la pr\u00e9fecture \u00e9tant habit\u00e9s par des gens ou mina, sans savoir leur langue, nous ne pourrons jamais \u00e9tablir une mission s\u00e9rieuse parmi eux.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

En d\u00e9cembre 1885, le p\u00e8re Moran part avec le p\u00e8re Beauquis sous la conduite des p\u00e8res M\u00e9nager et Baudin pour fonder Adangb\u00e9, o\u00f9 ils s’\u00e9tablissent. Il est d\u00e9sign\u00e9 comme sup\u00e9rieur de cette mission d\u00e9di\u00e9e \u00e0 l’Immacul\u00e9e Conception. Les missionnaires ne r\u00e9ussissent pas \u00e0 s’implanter \u00e0 Adangb\u00e9 et ils s’en vont jusqu’\u00e0 Atakpam\u00e9. La fondation l\u00e0 aussi s’av\u00e8re difficile, mais les p\u00e8res Moran et Beauquis y restent. L\u00e0, les deux missionnaires sont empoisonn\u00e9s le samedi saint (samedi 24 avril) 1886. A l’aide de vomitif, ils r\u00e9ussissent \u00e0 \u00e9liminer le poison. Le p\u00e8re Beauquis sera vite gu\u00e9ri, mais le p\u00e8re Moran restera longtemps malade. A peu pr\u00e8s remis, le p\u00e8re Moran redescend \u00e0 Agou\u00e9, pour se reposer aupr\u00e8s de ses confr\u00e8res et pour \u00ab\u00a0faire ses provisions\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n

Au retour, les ennuis et les difficult\u00e9s avec les chefs locaux redoublent. Les chefs convoitent les provisions et imposent de fortes amendes aux missionnaires. Les f\u00e9ticheurs sont de plus en plus jaloux de l’ascendant des p\u00e8res sur la population.. En d\u00e9cembre, le p\u00e8re Beauquis redescend \u00e0 la c\u00f4te, pendant que le p\u00e8re Moran rest\u00e9 seul essaie de calmer les envies et les jalousies par des cadeaux. En janvier, 1887, le p\u00e8re Lecron, nouveau sup\u00e9rieur de la pr\u00e9fecture, vient avec le p\u00e8re Beauquis et les provisions. Le p\u00e8re Lecron, d’une douceur rare, met de la joie et du bonheur \u00e0 la mission, donne d’excellents conseils pour patienter avec les autorit\u00e9s et calme ces autorit\u00e9s. Apr\u00e8s le d\u00e9part du p\u00e8re Lecron, les missionnaires d’Atakpam\u00e9 vivent quelques mois dans le calme. Un terrain est m\u00eame acquis sur la colline et on pr\u00e9pare les mat\u00e9riaux pour les constructions. Les p\u00e8res continuent \u00e0 soigner les malades et acqui\u00e8rent de plus en plus une grande r\u00e9putation.<\/p>\n

Cela ne fait pas l’affaire des \u00ab\u00a0bokonons\u00a0\u00bb et des f\u00e9ticheurs qui d\u00e9cident la mort des p\u00e8res. Ceux-ci sont empoisonn\u00e9s par le poison vers\u00e9 dans le vin de palme qu’ils ont l’habitude d’acheter chaque jour. Les vomitifs r\u00e9ussissent pour le p\u00e8re Beauquis qui est transport\u00e9 \u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s inconscient \u00e0 la c\u00f4te, mais ils n’ont aucun r\u00e9sultat sur le p\u00e8re Moran qui meurt dans d’atroces souffrances.<\/p>\n

Atakpam\u00e9 et les villages environnants assist\u00e8rent \u00e0 ses fun\u00e9railles. Le corps \u00e9tait port\u00e9 par les deux fils de l’ancien roi, celui qui avait re\u00e7u les missionnaires et qui \u00e9tait mort pour cela.<\/p>\n

La mission d’Atakpam\u00e9 fut rouverte en 1900 et les p\u00e8res du Verbe divin r\u00e9ussiront \u00e0 retrouver les ossements du p\u00e8re Moran et \u00e0 leur donner une s\u00e9pulture convenable.<\/p>\n

Father Jeremiah MORAN (1859 – 1887)<\/p>\n

Jeremiah Moran was born in Ballinree, Toomevara, Co Tipperary, in the diocese of Killaloe, during 1859 (a search of baptismal records yielded no additional information as to date of birth). He died at Atakpam\u00e9, Togo, as a result of poisoning, on 7 August 1887.<\/p>\n

One of four children born to Daniel Moran and his wife Rebecca (Hayes), Jeremiah was among a small number of Irish students recruited to the Society by James O’Haire (an alumnus of All Hallows seminary who introduced the Society to Ireland in 1876\/1877). One must assume that he had already received some secondary education, for he spent only one year in the Society’s apostolic school. Jeremiah was one of the first group of students in this institution which was opened by Francois Devoucoux, first S.M.A. superior in Ireland, at ‘Lough View’, on the Old Youghal Road, Cork, on 22 September 1878. On 24 September 1879 Jeremiah entered the Society’s seminary, at Cours Gambetta, Lyon, France, to commence his study of philosophy and theology. Travelling with him to Lyon were two other young Irishmen, William Connaughton and James Hennebery. Jeremiah was admitted to membership of the Society at Lyon, on 10 June 1881, and was ordained a priest in the seminary chapel at Lyon, on 26 July 1884. The name of the ordaining prelate is unknown.<\/p>\n

Two months later, without having the chance to visit home or meet his mother, Jeremiah left for the prefecture of Dahomey, then an immense jurisdiction encompassing much of the West Coast of Africa. After spending some time in the principal station of Agou\u00e9 (situated in Togoland), Jeremiah and Aim\u00e9 Beauquis, guided by Ernest Menager (the prefect apostolic) and Noel Baudin, set out in December 1885, to found a mission at Adangb\u00e9. They arrived safely and the two priests established themselves there, Jeremiah becoming the superior of this mission which was dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. However after a while it became clear that the Fathers were unwanted and that the mission would never succeed. So Jeremiah and his companion left Adangb\u00e9 and moved on to Atakpam\u00e9, an important town further into the hinterland. There too they experienced opposition but this time, seeing better prospects, they decided to remain. Eventually on 24 April 1886, on Holy Saturday, both missionaries were poisoned. With the aid of an antidote they succeeded in expelling the toxic substance from their stomachs, although Jeremiah was to remain sick for a considerable time. Eventually he was sufficiently recovered to go (with his companion) to Agou\u00e9 where he completed his convalescence and gathered equipment.<\/p>\n

On his return to Atakpam\u00e9 the difficulties with the local chiefs were redoubled. The chiefs coveted the provisions which the missionaries had brought, imposing large taxes, while the fetishers (the local religious leaders) became increasingly jealous of the missionaries’ growing influence. In December 1886 Fr. Beauquis went down to the Coast, while Jeremiah remained behind doing everything in his power to combat jealousy and envy giving presents to the chiefs. In January 1887 Fr. Joseph Lecron, the new superior of the prefecture, came with Fr. Beauquis, bearing a fresh consignment of provisions for the mission. Fr. Lecron advised the Fathers on ways and means of dealing with the delicate situation in which they were now living and after his departure the missionaries experienced a period of relative calm. A plot of land was obtained on top of a hill and they prepared material for the construction of a church and mission residence. They also continued to tend the sick, gaining a high reputation among the ordinary people. However early in August 1887 the fetishers made a second attempt on the lives of the missionaries, one of their number secreting poison in the palm wine which they were accustomed to purchase each day. The antidote applied succeeded for Fr. Beauquis who was carried in a barely conscious condition to the Coast; but it had no effect on Jeremiah who lingered for several days before dying in great agony. Jeremiah was buried by the people of Atakpam\u00e9 and neighbouring villages, carried to his grave by two sons of the King (named Abassa) who had first received the missionaries into the district and had been poisoned, evidently, for this act some months later.<\/p>\n

The mission was re opened in 1900 by a group of German Divine Word missionaries. One of their first actions was to take Jeremiah’s remains (buried at the foot of a tree) and give them a Christian burial. They carried his remains to the southern gate of the town where they laid them to rest in a brick lined grave. Thus was begun the Christian cemetery of the town. Jeremiah was the first S.M.A. priest to work in Togo and the first priest to die there. One hundred years later the Church in Togo, now among the strongest in West Africa, decided to mark the centenary of Jeremiah’s death with a week of prayer and celebration (which included priestly ordinations) culminating in solemn requiem Mass followed by a re burial of Jeremiah’s remains in the new cathedral at Atakpam\u00e9. When the bishop and civil authorities assisted at the re opening of Jeremiah’s tomb they carried with them a coffin, but no bodily remains were found. The only objects found in the grave were a belt buckle and the mouldering pieces of his missionary cross. The ‘reburial’ took place exactly 100 years to the day after Jeremiah’s lonely death on 7 August 1887. Jeremiah Moran had a sister, Katie, who became a religious Sister Thecla O.L.A. and served on the same mission. He had another sister, Kathleen and two brothers, Daniel and William.<\/p>\n

He is buried in Atakpam\u00e9, Togo, West Africa.<\/p>\n

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