1892

The sisters and the girls' school

In April 1892 the Sisters of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows — Indian religious, formed at Trichinopoly in 1876 — numbered sixty-five, and the Jesuit historian Auguste Jean names Vadakkankulam among the four houses they kept beyond that city. Their special work, he writes, is the education of girls, and everywhere "they direct flourishing schools." The Society's Roman register sets the priest here down as chaplain of that convent of Indian nuns and director of its school — in 1900, and again in 1914 under Fr Caussanel.

DocumentedThis moment rests on 4 sources.
ARSI 1900p. 55
-57P. Thomas Giuge, Prcef. spir., Mission. Rev. Paulus Sinnaper, Sac. scec., Mz'ssion. Joannes Gerbaud, Coadj., Ad .omnia. 2. Sattankoulam. P. Regís Nicolas, Mission., Cons. ann. g. P. Joannes Arulanandam, Mi~sion. 3. Vadakenkoulam. P. Marianus Dayriam, Cur. ag. paroch. etconv. monial. ind. sept. Dol. B. M. V.,Dir. schol., Mission.,Conf. NN. 4. Kallikoulam. P. Justinus Baumal, Mission. 5. Sendamaram. - 6. Viravanellour. P. Josephus Ignacy, Mission. 7. Kamayanayakempatty. - 8. Strivillipoutour. P. Stephanus Talon, Conf. NN., Prces. coll. cas. consc., Mission., Cons. ann. 3· P. Vincentius Jeganader, Mission. 11. -IN ORA PISCATORIA 1. Tuticorin. P. Alexander Martin·, Min., Cur. ag.paroch. et conv. mon. ind. sept. Dol. B. M. V., Con..f. NN., Dir. scltol., Prces. sod. juv. et puell., Cons. ann. 3· P. Georgius Baurens, Adj. paroch., Prces. sod. bon. mort. et fem., Coll. púnct. pro litt. ann., Mission.
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In English

"3. Vadakenkoulam. Fr Marianus Dayriam, acting parish priest and [chaplain] of the convent of Indian nuns of the Seven Sorrows of the B.V.M., director of schools, missionary, confessor."

Catalogus Provinciae Tolosanae S.J., 1900ARSI, Rome — Madurai Mission, station 3

Published before 1930. In the public domain, and reproduced here in full.

What this source establishes

The Society's own register, in Latin, in Rome, in 1900: the priest of Vadakenkoulam is chaplain of the convent of Indian nuns of the Seven Sorrows, and director of schools. (The Latin "Dir. schol." stands as a separate office — it does not necessarily attach the school to the convent.)