{"id":768,"date":"2010-09-02T08:01:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T13:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/icath\/?p=768"},"modified":"2025-10-03T15:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:44:03","slug":"fr-vincent-bacquelin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Vincent Bacquelin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   Today, September 2nd, marks the 164th anniversary of the death of Father Vincent Bacquelin, a priest of the Diocese of Vincennes.  A true &#8220;Pioneer&#8221; priest in Indiana, he was born on December 1, 1811 at Clermont-Ferrand, France.  He was part of the group that came with <a href=\"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/?p=733\">Bishop Brute from France<\/a> to Indiana in 1836.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Bacquelin-659x1024.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Bacquelin-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"Grave of Fr. Vincent Bacquelin at St. Vincent&#039;s, Shelby County\" title=\"Bacquelin\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Bacquelin-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Bacquelin-659x1024.jpg 659w, https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Bacquelin.jpg 1064w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBacquelin was a seminarian at the time and he was sent to Mount St. Mary&#8217;s in Emmitsburg.  He was ordained there on April 25, 1837 by Bishop Brute.  In August of 1837, Brute sent him to minister to what basically consisted of central and south central Indiana.  Based at St. Vincent&#8217;s in Shelby County, Bacquelin visited Rush, Shelby, Bartholomew and Marion County.  He formed the first community at Indianapolis.  He also worked as far as Cambridge City and Richmond.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed, however, that many of the early missionaries, especially those who seemed to be so zealous, died before their time.  While on a sick call on September 2, 1846 in Rush County, Fr. Bacquelin was thrown from his horse against a tree and was killed instantly.  He was buried at St. Vincent\u2019s Shelby County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, September 2nd, marks the 164th anniversary of the death of Father Vincent Bacquelin, a priest of the Diocese of Vincennes. A true &#8220;Pioneer&#8221; priest in Indiana, he was born on December 1, 1811 at Clermont-Ferrand, France. He was part of the group that came with Bishop Brute from France to Indiana in 1836. Bacquelin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6820,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/6820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}