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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 183, 29 September 1876, Page 10

It is with deep regret that we announce the death of the Very Rev. Father J. Baptiste Petit-Jean, S.M., which occurred suddenly, of heart disease; on Thursday evening 21st inst., as he was about to proceed to St. Mary's Cathedral, Wellington, to take part in the performance of a function of the Church. Father Petit-Jean was one of the third company of Catholic missionaries who reached New Zealand, where he arrived on December 11th, 1839, together with the Rev. Fathers Viard,|after\yards Bishop of Wellington, Comte and Chevron, and the Ca-techist, Brother Attalus. During the long course of his labors in this country he was ever zealous in the cause of the Gospel, to which he had devoted his life; and he has been called away full of years and merits, and followed by the love of many who were his spiritual children, and the admiration and esteem of all. — R.I.P.