Abbot General Jean (Benoit) Gariador, OSB

1859 - 1936  (77 years)

• Name	Jean (Benoit) Gariador
  Prefix	Abbot General
  Suffix	OSB
  Nickname	Benoit
  Birth	5 May 1859	Chiloenia, Les Aldudes, France   [1]
  		Jean Benoit Gariador birth 1859
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1901-1936
  	Email received 3/16/2019 from Jacques Damestoy, a monk at Belloc.
  	Father Benedict, had been sent for the first time to the Mission of Palestine, in 1901. In 1907 he was elected Visitor of the monasteries of the French province. During World WarI, he was in Damascus and Beirut. In 1919 he became vicar general of the abbot general, then elected abbot general in 1920, for a term of 8 years, therefore until 1928. Then he was apostolic visitor of the Melchite monks in Palestine. He died in Beirut on August 13, 1936, where his funeral was celebrated. His mortal remains were transferred to the monastery of Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, but this monastery closed in 1950. It is currently the Abraham House, managed by Caritas, for the reception of pilgrims. There is a plaque commemorating all the monks who were buried there, but I do not know where the bodies were transferred after the closure of the monastery.
  Ordained	1885-1936
  	Father Benoit was a Benedictine priest who was ordained at the monastery of Belloc, France. He became prior of Buckfast Abbey in England from 1885 to 1899. He later worked in Rome for the Congregation of Primitive Observance.
  Death	13 Aug 1936	Beirut, Lebanon
  Burial	Jerusalem, Israel
  Person ID	I34	family
  Last Modified	31 Mar 2019

  
  

  Father	Jean Gariador,   b. 14 Jan 1814, Chiloenia, Les Aldudes, France d. 8 May 1893, Chiloenia, Les Aldudes, France (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Marianne Ardans,   b. Abt 1827, Ardans/Berhainea, Les Aldudes, France d. 27 Jun 1910, Chiloenia, Les Aldudes, France (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	27 Nov 1849	Chiloenia, Les Aldudes, France
  Family ID	F5	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  		Fr. Benoit Gariador
  		Gariador family Chiloenia (circa 1885)

  
  

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• Sources

  [S1] AD64 Birth Record, (http://earchives.le64.fr/), Les Aldudes 1853-1862 births page 72. http://earchives.le64.fr/img-viewer/FRAD064003_IR0002/ALDUDES/ALDUDES_C_N_1853-1862/viewer.html?ns=FRAD064006_5MI16_1459.jpg