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Grave of Brother Eugenio Eyraud

The grave of Brother Eugène Eyraud (1820 – 1868), a lay friar of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and the first Westerner to live on Easter Island. First opposed, he became popular and influential. In 1866 he assisted in what would be the last ceremony of the Birdman cult. Eyraud brought tuberculosis to the island in 1867, which led to the death of a quarter of the island's population, and he died of it on 23 August 1868, nine days after the last islanders had been baptised.

Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Tue Oct 08, 1985
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