1863
What it cost, written in stone
What the seventeen years cost is written beside the church. “The piety of the Christians of Vadakenkoulam raised, near their church, a modest tomb to Fr Eugène Rossignol, who died on 25 January 1863.” He had caught the cholera nursing the Christians of Callikoulam. He was not the last to be laid there. Fr Victor Delpech came back to this village at the end, and the fevers took him, and he died in the arms of Fr Pouget; his stone gives the day, 16 January 1887, and the year of his birth, 1835. Fr Remigius Fernandez followed him in 1899, at seventy-eight. The stones are still legible, and the Latin at the foot of Delpech's says who set them there: his brethren raised this tomb, and the ones around it.
In English
"The piety of the Christians of Vadakenkoulam raised, near their church, a modest tomb to Fr Eugène Rossignol, who died on 25 January 1863. It was in giving his care to the Christians of Callikoulam, then afflicted with cholera, that he contracted the illness of which he died."
What this source establishes
What the long building cost, written beside the church: a modest tomb to Fr Eugène Rossignol, who died 25 January 1863 of the cholera he caught nursing the Christians of Callikoulam. Verbatim and exact.