Reverend Maximin Alff, SS.CC., was born in
Treves
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,
Belgium
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, on 24 July 1866. He made his profession in the
Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
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on 6 July 1867. He studied at the
Catholic University of Leuven
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and was ordained to the
presbyterate
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on 24 August 1890. He was subsequently appointed as professor of
theology
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at
Miranda de Ebro
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in
Spain
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, from 1892 until 1894. He was then sent to the
Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands, arriving in
Honolulu
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on 25 October 1894. He served as parochial vicar in Kona, Kaua'i, Hana and Wailuku. In 1912, he was elected provincial superior. He died on 1 January 1927 and was buried in the
Honolulu Catholic Cemetery
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.
1866 births
1927 deaths
19th-century Belgian Roman Catholic priests
20th-century American Roman Catholic priests
Hawaii Catholic priests
Picpus Fathers
19th-century American Roman Catholic priests
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