Martial Paillot
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Martial Jean Baptiste Paillot | |
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| Born | 1855 or 1856 Ménil sur Saulx, France |
| Died | September 16, 1930 Bangalore, India |
Father Martial Jean Baptiste Paillot (born 1855 or 1856; died September 16, 1930) was a French Roman Catholic missionary,[1] history professor and parish priest. He served as a missionary in Pondicherry, India for 44 years.
Paillot was born in Ménil sur Saulx, France, the second in a family of ten children (four of whom died at a young age). (Sources differ as to his date of birth, either 1855 or 1856 are given). Little is known about his youth. His younger brother described him as very studious, sporty, with a combative nature.[2]
He studied at the Minor and Major Seminary in Verdun, and ordained as a priest on June 30, 1881.[3]
He worked as a history professor at the Minor Seminary in Verdun for two years, then became a vicar in Montmédy, then entered the Foreign Missions Seminary (Séminaire des Missions Étrangères) in Paris in 1885. After spending a year there he was posted to the mission in Pondicherry, India,[3] where he lived for the rest of his life. During his first years there a brother and his mother died.[2]