{"id":928,"date":"2015-01-21T07:49:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T07:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkpdefunts.smainternational.info\/?p=928"},"modified":"2015-01-21T07:49:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T07:49:43","slug":"le-pere-joseph-margreither","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"Le P\u00e8re Joseph MARGREITHER"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Missions Africaines \u2013 Province de Strasbourg<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Margreither<\/td>\nn\u00e9 le 27 janvier 1884 \u00e0 Willer sur Thur
dans le dioc\u00e8se de Strasbourg, France
membre de la SMA le 26 septembre 1905
pr\u00eatre le 21 juillet 1907
d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 2 mars 1945<\/td>\n		\n

1907-1929 missionnaire \u00e0 la C\u00f4te du B\u00e9nin<\/p>\n

1929-1932 missionnaire au Togo
1933 Vigneulles
1933-1936 Saint-Pierre, professeur et surveillant
1936-1945 missionnaire en G\u00e9orgie, USA<\/p>\n

d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 Tenafly, USA, le 2 mars 1945,
\u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 60 ans<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Le p\u00e8re Joseph MARGREITHER (1884 – 1945)<\/p>\n

Le 2 mars 1945, \u00e0 Tenafly (USA), retour \u00e0 Dieu du p\u00e8re Joseph Margreither, \u00e0 l’\u00e2ge de 60 ans.<\/p>\n

Joseph Margreither naquit \u00e0 Weiler (Thann) dans le dioc\u00e8se de Strasbourg en 1884. Il fit ses \u00e9tudes \u00e0 Keer, Richelieu et Lyon o\u00f9 il entra en 1903. Il fit le serment en 1905 et fut ordonn\u00e9 pr\u00eatre en 1907. En octobre de la m\u00eame ann\u00e9e, il partait pour le vicariat de la C\u00f4te du B\u00e9nin. Il y travailla en plusieurs missions. Lui aussi, il aida le p\u00e8re Landais en sa cocoteraie de Tocpo. En 1928, il quittait le Nigeria, c’\u00e9tait l’\u00e9poque o\u00f9 on r\u00e9partissait les territoires entre les diverses provinces. L’ann\u00e9e suivante, le p\u00e8re partait pour le Togo, d’o\u00f9 il dut rentrer bien malade (paludisme), en 1932. Il partit alors pour l’Am\u00e9rique, en cette autre mission confi\u00e9e \u00e0 la province d’Alsace-Lorraine.<\/p>\n

Le p\u00e8re Margreither fut un bon confr\u00e8re et un excellent missionnaire. Peu dou\u00e9 pour l’administration, il \u00e9tait d’un d\u00e9vouement exemplaire.<\/p>\n

Father Joseph Margreither (1884 – 1945)<\/p>\n

Joseph Margreither was born in Miller-sur-Thur, Alsace-Lorraine, in the diocese of Strasbourg, on January 27, 1884.
He died in Tenafly, NJ, USA, on March 2, 1945.<\/p>\n

Joseph Margreither was thirteen years old when he entered the Colleges of the Society. He received his second-level education in Our Lady of Lourdes Apostolic School, at Keer en Cadier, Holland, and in the Petit Seminaire des Roches at Chamalieres (Puy-de-Dome) (1897-1902). He was then promoted to the Society\u2019s major seminary, at Cours Gambetta, Lyon, France, where he made his novitiate and studied philosophy and theology (1902-1907) He was received as a member of the Society on September 26, 1905 and was ordained a priest in the seminary chapel at Lyon on July 21, 1907.<\/p>\n

After ordination Joseph was appointed to the Vicariate Apostolic of the Bight of Benin, in West Africa. Originally part of the vast vicariate of Dahomey, erected in 1860, this jurisdiction had been established ten years later and extended over much of south western Nigeria. Its ecclesiastical capital at Lagos. He worked in the cathedral parish in Lagos and in Abeokuta, But he is best remembered for his work in Topo mission, first as assistant to Fr. Landais and then as superior. The island of Topo had been leased to the Vicariate by government in 1874. Subsequently a coconut farm had been planted which became an important source of revenue through the sale of copra (dried fruit of the coconut used for making soap and cosmetics). Topo had a boarding school (the boys helped in the farm), also a convent with orphanage attached and, of course, a church and mission. There were also ten outstations to be cared for, the most important of which was Badagry which had been founded in 1899.<\/p>\n

With the formation of the Alsace Province in 1927 (the Lyon Province was formed in the same year), Joseph was withdrawn from Nigeria and sent to Togo, which had been entrusted to the care of the Alsatians. Going there early in 1929 he was posted as assistant to Theophile Boursin in the District of Anecho, where there was a central mission, thirteen outstations, and a convent of OLA Sisters who ran a girls school. A year later Joseph became superior of the District of Woga which had been established the year earlier. Joseph suffered from continuous bouts of malaria during 1932 and early in 1933 he was invalided home. He spent the next two years convalescing<\/p>\n

In the early years of the 20th century Ignace Lissner, from Alsace, had pioneered Society works in the Southern States of the USA, founding during the next decade several missions in African-American communities. Staffing these missions were Society members drawn mainly from the Alsace-Lorraine region. As the American works grew in scope staffing requirements increased and the new Alsace Provincial, Fr. Brediger was frequently requested to provide men. It was against this background that Joseph \u2013 clearly no longer fit for the tropics \u2013 was re-assigned to the American branch. He came to America in 1935 and was assigned to the Society\u2019s missions in Georgia. However within a matter of months his health broke down and he was re-assigned to St. Anthony\u2019s Mission House, Tenafly NJ, then the headquarters of the American branch. He was to reside here for the remaining years of his life, helping in administration of the house, assisting in promotion work, and taking on temporary pastoral assignments in the Archdiocese of Newark. He also spent many hours at his favorite hobby which was gardening, doing much to beautify the environment.<\/p>\n

Fr. Noel Douau, Archivist at the SMA Generalate in Rome for many years, compiled three volumes of \u2018short lives of deceased confreres\u2019 in the late 1950\u2019s. In this he tells us that Joseph had a gift for administration. A card in the archives of the American Province, in Tenafly, commemorating Joseph\u2019s death, has written on it in fountain pen the following inscription:
\u2018the good gardener was needed in Heaven. Fr. Margreither was one.\u2019<\/p>\n

He is buried in the SMA Community Plot, in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Tenafly, NJ, USA.<\/p>\n

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