Jean-Marie Beurel

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Jean-Marie Beurel
illness

Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus
girls' schools in Singapore.

Biography

Beurel was born on 5 February 1813 at

Siam. At the age of 26, he left France on 16 March 1839 and would arrived Singapore on 29 October 1839.[1]

Beurel had come as a

Roman Catholic
chapel on Bras Basah Road. When Bishop Jean-Paul-Hilaire-Michel Courvezy talked of extending the chapel because it was getting too small, Father Beurel suggested that a church be built elsewhere so that the current site could be used for a school for boys.

Fund-raising for the cathedral began in 1840. Faced with a shortage of funds, Beurel travelled as far as

Protestant
community in Singapore.

Of the two

architectural plans submitted, the chosen design was by Denis McSwiney, a former clerk to George Drumgoole Coleman. The foundation stone was laid on 18 June 1843 by John Conolly, a merchant resident of Singapore. Cathedral of the Good Shepherd was completed at the cost of 18,355.22 Spanish dollars,[2]
and was consecrated by Father Beurel on 6 June 1847, before a crowd of more than 1,500 people.

In 1848, Beurel asked the

Brothers of the Christian Schools
and two Infant Jesus Sisters.

In May 1852, Beurel and the Brothers founded

Saint Joseph's Institution[3][4] in the former chapel
.

In July 1852, he asked the Straits Settlements Government once again for land next to the church for a charitable institution for girls. When he was told that there was already sufficient land given to the church, he bought a

Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus
in Singapore, was opened in February 1854. To further the expansion of the Town Convent, Beurel had acquired all the nine lots of land that would constitute the entire Convent complex.

In 1859, Beurel had completed the parochial house next to the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd.

In 1868, he returned to France on account of illness. Beurel died in Paris, France, on 3 October 1872 at the age of 59 and was buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery.[6][7]

At the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd is a memorial plaque to Beurel.

Memorial plaque to Father Jean-Marie Beurel at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Singapore.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Fr Jean Marie Beurel [1813-1872]".
  2. ^ Wijeysingha 2006, p. 98.
  3. OCLC 165066747
    .
  4. ^ Wijeysingha 2006, p. 226.
  5. OCLC 52179018
    .
  6. OCLC 57477530
    .
  7. ^ Wijeysingha 2006, p. 286.

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