Commemorative monument beside the church: Within these grounds lie the mortal remains of Rev Vincent DePaul Merle, O.C.R. born Chalamont, France October 29, 1768, Ordained April 7, 1798, Died Tracadie — January 1, 1853. France gave me birth, when wafted o'er I sought the sacred solymean shore. To thee Tracadie holy rites I gave, precepts devine and thou to me a grave. 38 priests and brothers of the Trappist Order who served at Petit Clairvaux, Tracadie. 1825-1908 [ his remains were transferred to the convent cemetery to the monastery cemetery in 1903 and finally to the cemetery in Tracadie in 1926. See: JJJ p368-9 ]