Hilarion Rodrigue Laberge
1856-1929
Photo courtesy of Jo Ann Laberge Boyer

Born from the union of Toussaint Laberge and Rachel Montpetit-Potvin (Poitevin), Rodrigue was born in Saint-Chrysostome (a.k.a. St-Jean Chrysostome, Châteauguay Co.) on 24 January 1856. He studied at the Grand Séminaire of Montreal before his ordainment by Mgr Édouard Charles Fabre, 19 May 1883. His ministry begins in 1883 to 1898, as vicar in Napierville, chaplain to the ill at St-Jean-de-Dieu, parish priest at Sainte-Agnès-de-Dundee, Saint-Antoine-Abbé and Saint Télesphore, from 1898 to 1926. In a 1929 parish bulletin he is described as being humble, modest, worthy and extremely meticulous. When he retired in 1927, to honor his merit, Mgr J. Alfred Langlois bestowed him the title of Canon. Deceased on 26 March 1929, he is buried in his native parish.

(Ref.: Communauté Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, 1838 to 1988)

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