Brother Ferdinand Blais, FSC, of the Francophone Canada District, died on January 2, 2017, in Laval (Québec), Canada. He was 94 years old.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS:
Sunday, January 8, 2017
2:00 p.m., Visitation
7 :30 p.m., prayer
Résidence De La Salle
300, Chemin du Bord-de-l’Eau
Laval
Monday, January 9, 2017
10:30 a.m., Funeral mass
Laval, Québec
The cremains will be buried later at Notre-Dame-de-Belmont, Québec.
MILESTONES:
Born: January 23, 1922, at St-Elzéar (Québec)
Entered novitiate: Sainte-Foy, 1939
Pronounced perpetual vows: 1939, Napa, California (USA).
Died: January 2, 2017, at Laval (Québec)
ASSIGNMENTS:
1942, Trois-Rivières, Académie De La Salle (teacher)
1944, Trois-Rivières, St-Philippe (teacher)
1947, United States, California (studies)
1948, Ste-Foy, first noviciate (teacher)
1951, Ste-Foy, scolasticate (teacher)
1957, Bafang, Cameroun (Collège St-Paul)
1960, Yaoundé, Cameroun (Collège Vogt)
1966, Brussels, Belgium (religious studies)
1967, Bafang, Cameroun (Collège St-Paul)
1972, Yaoundé, Cameroun (Collège Vogt)
1976, Ste-Foy, route de l’Église (sabbatical year)
1977, St-Augustin, De La Salle community (teacher)
1982, United-States, Sangre de Cristo (New Mexico)
1983, St-Augustin, De La Salle community (teacher)
1986, Ste-Foy, route de l’Église
1987, Ste-Foy, Hélène-Boulé
1988, Rivière-du-Loup (pastoral ministry)
1989, Haïti, la Tortue (director Collège St-Miguel)
1991, Ste-Foy, Carrefour Jeunesse (director 1991-93)
2004, Ste-Foy, 2595, ch. des Quatre-Bourgeois (retired)
2013, Laval, Résidence De La Salle (retired)