in 1828, he commenced studying theology, after completing his classical
course. From 1828 to 1831 he filled with great distinction and
efficiency a professor’s chair in the same seminary; and after one year
exclusively spent in the study of theology, was ordained priest on the
29th of July, 1832. From 1832 to 1866 he is seen displaying his
sacerdotal zeal as vicar in the parishes of St. Roch de l’Achigan and
Berthier, as curé in the parishes of St. Pie de Bagot, Ste. Marguerite
de Blainville, and St. John Dorchester, which he ruled during the long
period of twenty-two years. There he founded several educational
institutions, and built a magnificent church, of which the St. John
parishioners may well feel proud. On the 20th March, 1866, he was
elected bishop of St. Hyacinthe; on the 29th July he was consecrated,
and the 31st of the same month he took possession of the see. The chief
work of his career as bishop, a work for which he is rightly considered
the greatest benefactor of the diocese of St. Hyacinthe, was the
restoring of the finances. The heavy debt which weighed upon the
bishopric was completely paid off through his wise and prudent
financing. He died July 15th, 1875, aged sixty-five years, deeply
regretted, and, according to his own expressed will, was buried in the
vault of the Church of the Hotel Dieu at St. Hyacinthe.
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=Prince, Right Rev. John C.=, The late Bishop Prince of St. Hyacinthe,
was born at St. Gregory, in the district of Three Rivers, on the 13th of
February, 1804. After a brilliant course of classical studies in the
College of Nicolet, he taught literature in the same college, and also
in the College of St. Hyacinthe. Whilst thus engaged, from 1822 till
1826, he also pursued a complete course of theology, and fitted himself
for the sacred order of priesthood, to which dignity he was raised in