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Gustave Limpins appointed priest of St James' parish. The new pastor was born at Ghent, Belgium, April 9, 1839, studied at the college of Louvain, and was there ordained priest. He came to the United States in 1863, was appointed pastor of the Church of "Our Lady of Help " at Detroit, where be was residing at the date of his appointment as pastor of St. James. Father Limyins died here Jan. 8.5, 1881, and was interred in the Catholic cemetery Jan. 27.

Source : (collective work) : History of Kent County, Michigan : together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens : history of Michigan, embracing accounts of the pre-historic races, aborigines, French, English and American conquests, and a general review of its civil, political and military history.; Chicago: C.C. Chapman & Co., 1881, 1414 pgs.