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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Nelson, Marlborough & Westland Provincial Districts]

The Rev. Louis Claude Servajean

The Rev. Louis Claude Servajean, S.M., was appointed to the charge of the Roman Catholic Church in Blenheim in February, 1990. He was born near Lyons, in France, in the year 1863, is a son of a large landed proprietor there, and was educated
Maceg, photo.The Rev. L. C. Servajean.

Maceg, photo.
The Rev. L. C. Servajean.

at St. Jodard College, in the province of Loire, and at Barcelona, in Spain, where he read philosophy and theology. For three years afterwards he held the professorship of classics and mathematics at the college of Montlueon, in the province of Allier. In 1881, the Rev. Father Servajean came to New Zealand, and has since served in the Greymouth, Ahaura, Christchurch, Te Aro, and Blenheim parishes. He has performed valnable service for his church, and has built several churches in various districts-Ahaura, Halswell, Addington, and Seddon, and has extended and improved the church property in Blenheim. The Rev. Father Servajean is a man of broad and liberal views, and takes an active part in social and in public life.