294 CHAPITRE XVI le 29 juin 1872, il était venu célébrer à Vadakenkoulam la fête des saints Apôtres et le vingt-cinquième anniversaire de sa consécration épiscopale, quand la guerre recommença.
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1872
The two days in June
On the 27th of June the bishop arrived, and the village received him at the little church of St Aloysius. Br Bergenthal was there too: the man who had drawn the plan and stood over the work came to see it blessed. The blessing was at five that evening. Then they kept the bishop's own silver jubilee, for it was twenty-five years since his consecration. And on the 29th, the feast of the Holy Apostles, Canoz sang the Pontifical Mass in the new church and declared it dedicated to the Holy Family.
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In English
“On 29 June 1872 he had come to Vadakenkoulam to keep the feast of the Holy Apostles and the twenty-fifth anniversary of his episcopal consecration.”
What this source establishes
The external witness to the opening day. Mismatch A6 records 27/29 June as resting on the parish English history alone, out of Fr Grégoire's notebook; this is printed in Paris in 1891, and it independently puts Canoz at Vadakenkoulam on 29 June 1872 for the feast of the Holy Apostles and the twenty-fifth anniversary of his consecration — which also dates that consecration to 29 June 1847. Windowed: the same page runs straight on into the caste trouble that broke out that week.