Salesius Lemmens

The Right Rev. Monsignor Salesius Lemmens, O.F.M.
Apostolic Prefect of Karachi
See	Apostolic Prefecture of Karachi
Successor	James Cornelius van Miltenburg O.F.M.
Orders
Ordination	10 March 1929
Personal details
Born	24 May 1904 Venray, Limburg, Netherlands
Died	21 March 1942 Karachi, Sind, British India

The Right Rev. Salesius Lemmens, O.F.M., was a Dutch Franciscan friar who served as the Apostolic Prefect of the Catholic Church in Karachi, then a part of British India. He died at the age of 39 in a drowning accident.

Lemmens came from a large family and was raised in a devout Catholic home. A younger sister, Sister Gertrude Lemmens, F.M.C.K., also became a noted missionary in India. He attended a college run by the Friars Minor in Venray, and 7 September 1922 was received into the Franciscan Order at the Alverna friary in Wijchen.

Lemmens professed solemn vows on 27 March 1927. On 18 March 1928 he was installed as a subdeacon. and was ordained a priest on 10 March 1929 in Oostrum.

After his ordination, Lemmens was assigned to the friary at Woerden and then in August 1931 as an assistant pastor at the Franciscan church on the Laanderstraat in Heerlen. Additionally he wrote a column in the Dagblad de Limburger called From the Scriptures. He gave religious instruction and was also chairman of the Department of Young Workmen in the government. In March 1934 he was appointed spiritual adviser to the St. Clemens Technicians Association. He served in a similar capacity for the Young Guard.

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