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BIOGRAPHY He was born in Saint-Cyr-la-Rosière , Orne , France . He entered the novitiate of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in 1811 and professed on February 22 , 1813 . After completion of his theological studies at the Irish College in Paris, he was ordained to the presbyterate in 1820 . In 1825 , Pope Leo XII appointed Father Bachelot as the Prefect of the newly-created Prefecture Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands . This prefecture would later be incorporated (along with the Prefectures Apostolic of Tahiti and the Marquesas) into the Vicariate Apostolic Of Oriental Oceania by the Holy See . He was assisted in his new position by Fathers Patrick Short and Abraham Armand and six Lay Brother s. They sailed from France on ''La Comète'' on November 21 , 1826 and arrived in Valparaíso , Chile , on February 8 , 1827 . They left Valparaíso on February 25 , 1827 , and after making two short stops at Arequipa and Lima , they arrived in Honolulu on July 9 , 1827 . After laboring for a short time in Hawai‘i, Father Bachelot was expelled from the Hawaiian Islands and ministered for a short time at Mission San Gabriel Arcangel near Los Angeles . In 1828 , he planted the seeds of the Algaroba tree ('' Prosopis '' sp.) from France. In 1837 he left Hawaii in the company of Father (later Bishop) Louis Maigret . His destination when he left Honolulu for the last time was the South Seas . He died at sea on December 5 , 1837 , and was buried by Father Maigret on Pohnpei in the Senyavin Islands of the Federated States Of Micronesia . EXTERNAL LINK |
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