Born in Jurançon (France) on June 5, 1877.
Died in Nazareth (Israel) on June 4, 1943.
He completed his studies at the college of Betharram and, from 1895 to 1900, in the scholasticate of Bethlehem, where he was ordained a priest on August 19, 1900. After two years of teaching at the college of Saint Joseph of Nay (near Betharram), he was sent to perfect his studies in Rome, where he obtained doctorates in philosophy and theology. After a few months living in the nascent Italian community of Traona, towards the end of 1904 he was appointed professor of philosophy in the Betharramite scholasticate in the Holy Land, where he would spend the rest of his life, except for a brief period due to the Great War, when he was in Rome and in the provisional scholasticate of Mendelu (Spain). Of great intellectual capacity, he knew and spoke correctly Latin, Greek, Arabic, Spanish, English and Italian; he dabbled in Akkadian and Old Armenian; he published, for internal use, a Cursus Philisophiae scholasticae ad mentem sancti Thomae, edited by the Jesuits of Beirut (1909); and he was preparing for a study of the Arab philosophy of Avicenna and Averroes when death suddenly overtook him.
Father Audin, together with his confrere *Léon Marque, were the first Betharramites to arrive in Traona, personally accompanied by Don Guanella on 16 August 1904, after having made them stay overnight in the *Asilo degli Ulivi house in Menaggio.
Sources:
Betharramite Archive of Rome, Fondo Italie-Traona, Lettres Père Marque 4010.
Guanellian sources:
Recalling, in «La Divina Provvidenza», 1904, pp. 160-161.
Photographs:
Betharramite Archive in Rome (courtesy of Roberto Cornara).