Maximin Alff

Reverend Maximin Alff, SS.CC., was born in

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, on 24 July 1866. He made his profession in the

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on 6 July 1867. He studied at the

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and was ordained to the

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on 24 August 1890. He was subsequently appointed as professor of

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, from 1892 until 1894. He was then sent to the Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands, arriving in

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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. 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 {{RC-clergy-stub