Clément Rodier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Clément Rodier

French missionary

Date of Birth: 25-May-1839

Place of Birth: Chambon-sur-Dolore, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 20-Nov-1904

Profession: missionary, botanist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Clément Rodier

  • Marie-Clément Rodier, C.S.Sp.
  • (French pronunciation: ?[ma?iklem?~ ??dje]; born Vital Rodier; 1839–1904) was a French missionary brother in Algeria.
  • He is credited with creating the clementine variety of mandarin orange in 1902. Rodier was born 25 May 1839 as Vital Rodier in Malvieille, near to Chambon-sur-Dolore, France.
  • Originally a member of the Brothers of the Annunciation at Misserghin in Algeria, he helped to run an orphanage.
  • Brother Marie-Clément worked with the orphanage's citrus trees, and made grafts from an uncultivated tree that had grown among some thorn bushes in the orchard.
  • This graft resulted in the clementine, which was named in honor of its creator.Brother Marie-Clément's new variety was "a species of mandarin, which won the admiration of connoisseurs and which the orphans christened the Clementine.
  • It was neither a mandarin tree nor an orange tree.
  • Its fruit was redder than a mandarin and had a delicious taste and, moreover, it had no pith".Brother Marie-Clément became a brother in the Congregation of the Holy Spirit after the Brothers of the Annunciation were authorized to join that order in 1903.
  • He died in 1904. In 2010, a building on the campus of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was named Clement Hall in honor of Brother Marie-Clément.

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