1863
A tomb beside the church
What the long building cost is written beside the church. “The piety of the Christians of Vadakenkoulam raised, near their church, a modest tomb to Fr Eugène Rossignol, who died on 25 January 1863” — he had caught the disease nursing the cholera-stricken Christians of Callikoulam. Fr Victor Delpech, who anointed the dying Fr Grégoire aboard ship, came back and died here himself, in the arms of Fr Pouget. Dessal gives the day as 16 January 1887; Auguste Jean says only that it was a Saturday.
In English
"The piety of the Christians of Vadakenkoulam raised, near their church, a modest tomb to Fr Eugène Rossignol, who died on 25 January 1863. It was in giving his care to the Christians of Callikoulam, then afflicted with cholera, that he contracted the illness of which he died."
What this source establishes
What the long building cost, written beside the church: a modest tomb to Fr Eugène Rossignol, who died 25 January 1863 of the cholera he caught nursing the Christians of Callikoulam. Verbatim and exact.