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Biography
1826: Born in Heubécourt (Eure)
1856 (?): Professed Priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
1866: Cahagne was appointed supervisor of the newly-established St. Michael Collége des Galla in Marseille
- The College was directed by Fr. Emmanuel de Montagnac and closed in June 1870
1867: Cahagne began missionary work in Ethiopia under Gugliemo Massaja.
1868: Cahagne founded the Capuchin Catholic mission station in Finfinne among the Gullale Oromo. O’Mahoney and W. Smidt, “Finfinnee”, in Enc. Aeth., vol. 2, state on p. 544-45:
- “In 1868 Mәnelәk […] suggested to the Capuchin Fr. Taurin de Cahagne that he should open a mission at F. among the Gullallee. [… p. 545]. With the permission of the Oromo people, who owned the land, he built a Catholic church that was dedicated to Mary and consecrated on 25 July 1869. In a ‘ritual of adoption’, he was also integrated into the local Gullallee group, led by Abbaa Obboo (Foucher 1986). Missionary education was started; later even some former students of the Collège des Galla in Marseille arived in the 1870s […]. Oromo texts, written by Taurin, were used in church services, among them the canticle Maariyaam kan Birbirsaa (Foucher 1986)”
1875: Ordained Titular Bishop of Adramyttium
1879: The Catholic missionaries were expelled by the order of Emperor Yohannes IV. Cahagne then published Oromo religious books in France.
1881 to 1899: Cahagne headed the Catholic mission in Harar. Cahagne, who had been titular Bishop of Adramittium since 1875, succeeded Massaja as the governor of the Apostolic Vicariate of Galla in 1880.
1899: Passed away in Carcassonne (Aude)
Hymns
? Lyrics of the canticle Maariyaam kan Birbirsaa ?
Further reading
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