Born at Charols (Drôme) in 1822.
Taking of the habit at Notre-Dame de l’Osier, October 2, 1851.
Perpetual oblation at Aix, November 21, 1855. (no. 398)
Died at Autun, March 20, 1887.
François Rodet was born at Charols in the diocese of Valence in 1822. He entered the novitiate of Notre-Dame de l’Osier on October 2, 1851 and pronounced his vows of one year there in 1852. He made his perpetual oblation in Aix on November 21, 1855. Admitted to vows by unanimous vote at the November 5 session of the General Council, the secretary presented their reasons in his report: “Father Courtès presented for perpetual vows Brother Rodet who had already made his five year vows. This Oblate coadjutor brother from the Aix community is a prayerful person as well as one endowed with all the religious virtues and one apt to carry out any work we may choose to assign him. Moreover, there is not the least reason to refuse him this favour which he has certainly merited and which will be a commitment on his part to do even better.”
In the wake of this praise, Brother Rodet’s name figures not at all or only very rarely in Oblate sources. According to the personnels of 1862 and 1880, the only personnels extant for this period of time, he was still at Aix in 1862 and at Sacred Heart in Autun in 1880. His name surfaces again in Missions O.M.I. of 1885, 1886, 1887. In a report which appeared in 1885 (p. 74) concerning the house of Sacred Heart in Autun, rented out to the diocese and being used as a minor seminary, Father Delpeuch wrote: “Worthy Brother Rodet, in spite of his deafness which has become almost entirely complete, carries out the offices of Martha and does so with the enthusiasm of one new at this job. The professors never cease telling me how edified they are.” In Missions O.M.I., of 1886, p. 368, it is stated that, at Autun, Brothers Rodet and Némoz take care of everything and in 1887, p. 482, we learn that Brother Rodet died on March 20 of that same year.
Yvon Beaudoin, o.m.i.
