1. Marie-Julien Dunand, known in Chinese as Du Ang, was a French priest who was the Catholic apostolic vicar of North-Western Szechwan from 1893 to 1915.
13 Facts About Marie-Julien Dunand
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Marie-Julien Dunand was a recipient of the Legion of Honour.
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Marie-Julien Dunand was ordained a priest in 1863 and worked as a teacher and vicar in Albertville for about 5 years.
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Marie-Julien Dunand joined the Paris Foreign Missions Society in 1868, left for China in 1869 and arrived in 1870.
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In China, Dunand first worked as a missionary, but was nominated to direct the seminary at Muping, Baoxing, Ya'an.
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In 1886, Annet-Theophile Pinchon, the Apostolic Vicar of North-western Sichuan, appointed Marie-Julien Dunand to be the vicar general in charge of Chongqingzhou, near Chengdu.
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The apostolic vicariate under Marie-Julien Dunand saw local uprisings in 1896, in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion, and in 1902, in which Marie-Julien Dunand had to request the aid of a French gunboat.
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In 1898, Marie-Julien Dunand was named a of the Legion of Honour for his "eminent services rendered in the Far East and inestimable services rendered for the Lyonnese Mission in 1896" by Felix Faure.
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Marie-Julien Dunand was buried at Mopan Mountain near Chengdu, where Louis Gabriel Taurin Dufresse was buried.
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Marie-Julien Dunand was succeeded by Jacques-Victor-Marius Rouchouse as the apostolic vicar.
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Marie-Julien Dunand opened an orphanage, a hospital and a hospice for the poor and entrusted them to the Franciscan Sisters of Mary.
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Marie-Julien Dunand opened a school for boys, which was entrusted to the Marist Brothers.
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Marie-Julien Dunand initiated the construction of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Chengdu and the Annunciation Seminary, Bailu.