1. Anatole-Joseph Toulotte was a French White Fathers missionary who was Vicar Apostolic of Sahara and Sudan from 1893 to 1897.
24 Facts About Anatole-Joseph Toulotte
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte retired in 1897 due to physical and mental exhaustion after a long trip in West Africa.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte is known as coauthor of a monumental history of Christian Africa in ancient times.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte was born on 7 January 1852 in Lisbourg, Pas-de-Calais, in the diocese of Arras.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte attended the college of Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais, for his secondary education.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte entered the Grand Seminary of Arras in 1871.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte was inspired by a visit of Father Felix Charmetant and decided to become a missionary.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte arrived in Algiers in February 1873 with his co-student Leonce Bridoux, the future bishop, to begin his novitiate.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte was ordained a priest of the White Fathers on 24 October 1874.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte was then assigned to the Sahara for two years, where he met the young Father Simeon Lourdel.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte showed great ability for the study of languages and ancient documents.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte was somewhat solitary and ascetic, and did not always fit well into the life of the community.
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Two years later in 1884 Anatole-Joseph Toulotte was assigned to La Marsa, near Tunis, with three other researchers.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte continued this work in Rome in a new community established there in 1886.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte was a meticulous academic and a solitary ascetic, not a leader.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte became Apostolic Administrator of Sahara and Sudan on 29 May 1891.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte was ordained in the cathedral of Algiers in the Archdiocese of Algiers on 12 July 1891.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Sahara and Sudan on 4 March 1893.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte based himself at Ghardaia, Algeria, and travelled widely to visit the existing White Fathers missions and to found new ones.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte decided to organize a mission in the Sudan, and in 1894 was given permission to enter the Sudan from Senegal with a mission headed by a Frenchman.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte was ascetic and unsparing of his health, and at the end of this trip was exhausted and on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
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On his return to Europe Anatole-Joseph Toulotte said he wanted to retire.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte's request was immediately accepted by the Holy See on the advice of Bishop Leon Livinhac, superior of the White Fathers, who had noted his extreme physical and mental exhaustion.
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Anatole-Joseph Toulotte retired to Rome, where he recovered his health while living an almost hermit-like life.