Letter from Jean Le Vacher to René Alméras, 1648-06-22, Tunis

Letter from Jean Le Vacher to René Alméras, 1648-06-22, Tunis

Tunis

Plague

Non-Catholic Christians

Letter from Jean Le Vacher to the superior of CM in Rome (René Alméras) reporting: a) the death of Julien Guérin on 23 May 1648; b) that of Jacques Lesage [spelled Le Sagè] in Algiers approximately 20 days before; c) the slow recovery from his own brush with the plague; d) details regarding Julien Guérin's place of enterment; and e) an incident caused by the discovery of a well-preserved corpse in the Christian cemetery in Tunis, and the conflict it caused between the Roman Catholics and the Greek Orthodox; this prompted the local administration to rule that from then on the Greek would bury their dead in a different cemetery.

Additional comments

Jean Le Vacher

APF SOCG 65, 207r-v, 208v

Cited in P. Coste, ed., Saint Vincent de Paul: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents (Brooklyn, NY: 1985-2010), vol. 3, doc. 1057, p. 349, fn. 4.

1648-06-22

Addressed to René Alméras

Original; signed, dated; Italian

Italian

Letter

138

Origin: Tunis

Destination: [Paris]