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And there were nearly seventy-eight years that the good servant had labored.

THE SPIRITUAL LIFE.

He was baptized the same day. He hardly knew his father, the captain of a schooner, who spent his life as a cod-fisherman off the Newfoundland banks. When he died at St. Pierre and Miquelon, our confrere was still a little child. From the age of six, Adolphe Tanquerey wanted to be a priest, missionary and martyr. He asked to go to the minor seminary.

His widowed mother would not have been able to afford his education. Thanks to the generosity of a benefactress, and also to his elder brother already at the Oratory , our future confrere was enabled to get ready to pursue his budding vocation. In he entered the diocesan college of St. Lo, run by the Oratorians. With one of his townsmen, Henri Boivin like him to become a Sulpician and dead at Issy in , Adolphe Tanquerey rose to the head of a class in which good students were not scarce.

In Father Tanquerey entered the major seminary at Coutances.

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For him that was enchantment of heart and spirit. His soul, already so deeply religious, fell in love with the seminary and its life. He was carried away in the study of Theology. His devotion to the Blessed Virgin grew and deepened.