John Bost

See also: Bost

Jean Antoine Bost was born the March 4th 1817 in Moutier-Grandval, canton of Bern (Suisse), wire of Ami Bost, Pasteur, member of the Alarm clock. He learns the piano and becomes the pupil of Franz Liszt.

Biography

  • In 1840, it gives up its artistic career and wishes to become, like his/her father, Pasteur.

  • In 1844, he becomes Pasteur of the village of the Force (the Dordogne).
  • In 1846, it inaugurates the new temple. It then decides to build an asylum for the undesirable children: handicapped people, orphans, the poor.
  • on May 24th 1848, the first asylum, the Family, is inaugurated. It is the first of 9 asylums which it will make build. The unit bears today the name of Foundation John Bost.
  • In 1861, it marries Eugenie Ponterie. The couple will have three children: Leïla, Caroline, Henri.
He dies on November 1st 1881.

Quotations

“Those which all push back, I will accommodate them in the name of my Master. ” John Bost

“If your disorientated and disturbed hearts seek a high task to which they could be devoted, come to work on this hill, and will make there you the experiment, which in the life, the greatest joy is that to be given to the others. ” Negro Léopold

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Foundation John Bost
  • biography of John Bost
  • virtual Museum of French Protestantism: Charity works

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