Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau
Cardinal-Priest | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau 17 February 1820 |
| Died | 12 April 1898 (aged 78) Quebec, Canada |
| Buried | Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec |
| Parents | Jean-Thomas Taschereau Marie Panet |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Roman Athenaeum Saint Apollinare |
| Motto | In fide spe et caritate certandum |
| Coat of arms |  |
Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau (February 17, 1820 – April 12, 1898) was a
Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1871 until his death in 1898. The first Canadian cardinal, he was elevated to the College of Cardinals by Pope Leo XIII in 1886.[1]
Biography
One of seven children, Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau was born in
Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court. His great-uncle was Bernard-Claude Panet, who also served as Archbishop of Quebec
(1825–1833).
Taschereau studied at the
priest for the Archdiocese of Quebec on 10 September 1842.[2]
As a young priest, Taschereau was involved in providing care to the Irish immigrants to Quebec fleeing the Great Famine. Due to the terrible conditions on the ships bringing the immigrants, typhus was rampant. Taschereau described one ship, the Agnes, as "the most plague-ridden ship of all and in danger of losing everyone on board." In the end, the Agnes had a death rate of forty per cent.[3]
Taschereau obtained a doctorate in
consecration
as the Archbishop of Quebec on 19 March 1871.
At the urging of the Canadian government and many of the faithful, in 1886
Coadjutor Archbishop
in 1892. Cardinal Taschereau died in Quebec City on April 12, 1898.
References
- ^ Quebec Panorama website, Monument to Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau
- ^ "Elzéar-Alexandre Cardinal Taschereau". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ^ Don Cummer, "The Great Hunger", Canada's History, June–July 2022: 16–25, at p. 20.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau.
- Works by or about Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau at Internet Archive
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, by Salvador Miranda at Florida International University
- Biography at the Catholic Encyclopedia
- The Canadian Encyclopedia: Taschereau, Elzéar-Alexandre
- Assemblée Nationale Quebec: Thomas-Pierre-Joseph Taschereau (in French)
- Google Books website S. E. le Cardinal Taschereau, archevêque de Québec, by Henri Têtu (online copy of biography)
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