Subfonds FR-EBAF/AP/9 - Marcel Beaudry

Marcel Beaudry is the only one who entered this fund not because he was a Dominican father, but only as a lecturer at the École Biblique for many years.

He was born on March 10, 1946 in Magog, Quebec. After his high school studies with the Marist Brothers in Montreal, he obtained a diploma in psychology and pedagogy from the University of Montreal. He then taught for 9 years, then resumed his studies in theology, again in Montreal, specializing in biblical theology in 1980. He completed his training at the École Biblique during the 1980-1981 school year. It is there that he became very interested in the topography of the Holy Land and began to organize excursions in a very careful way.

In 1982, he was appointed professor of topography at the School, the subject having been somewhat neglected since Fr. Lemoine's death in 1975. For ten years, he limited himself to organizing excursions. It was only in 1992-1993 that he began teaching, with a course entitled "Geology and Geography of Palestine". Year after year, he varies his courses and specializes in urbanization. He died in a car accident on Sunday, June 25, 2000, near Ramallah.