Father Jules-Adrien Kirouac

Born in 1869, Jules-Adrien Kirouac was the twelfth of fifteen children born to François Kirouac and Julie Hamel. He is very well known among us, for having popularized a relationship with the family of the Marquis de Keroüartz of Brittany. This link proved to be false during genealogical research, undertaken by the Kirouac Family Association, between the years 1978 and 2000, and which made it possible to clarify our family links. He is not at the origin of this false link, we do not know who could have established it, but it is certain that with the help of his nephew, brother Marie-Victorin, and the friend of the latter, brother Lucien Serre, this false relationship has spread to the point of becoming a "quasi-truth" for 50 years.

In a second special issue of Le Trésor des Kirouac, we wanted to introduce you to this monk who, wherever he went, left good memories with those who knew him, even more than 50 years after his death as we were able to see this with former parishioners during the gathering of the Kirouac families in Saint-Justine-de-Langevin in 1998. His great generosity was what seems to us today to have been one of his main qualities.

Of great culture, he was also his father's guide when he visited part of Europe at the end of the 19th century. He left us his own notebook of a trip he made to Egypt, the Holy Land, Asia Minor and Greece in 1894. We would like to thank the Société du patrimoine de Sainte-Justine-de-Langevin, which is behind the publication of this story, for allowing us to make it available on this website.

Father Jules-Adrien Kirouac also left a monograph of the parish of Saint-Malachie, located in the regional county municipality of Bellechasse in Quebec, which we are also pleased to publish on this website.

We hope you will enjoy discovering this other outstanding character of the Kirouac family.