Father Jean Marie Beurel
Born at Plouguenast , Britany , on 5th February 1813 . Was ordained priest in the Paris Foreign Missions Seminary 16th March 1839
Arrived in Singapore on 29th October 1839 Left Singapore , semi-paralysed on 4th December 1868 ; died in Paris Seminary 3rd October 1872
" A man of an unalterable calm , a combination of human philosophy and saintly resignation , of perseverance that nothing could deter , neither blind opposition nor active hostility ; neither the anger of the great nor the menaces of the small ; he was one of those who know that in the affairs of this life a direct line is not necessarily the shortest road from one point to another ; when an obstacle stood in his path and he could not clear it in a single bound , he would go round it gently and quietly , with a smile which bore witness to his confidence in the future ."
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