(6 July 1899-4 Aug. 1969), clergyman. Born at Down Hatherley, a village near Gloucester, Eng. His father was by birth a German. Born in a non-Roman Catholic family, Justin Field became a Roman Catholic at 16. He studied at the Dominican priory at Woodchester, Eng., and was ordained priest in 1926. As a priest, he belonged to the Dominican Order. Bishop Couturier, who was also a Dominican, brought him to Alexandria to be his private secretary and to assist in improving the liturgy in the diocese of Alexandria. Fr Field taught the Gregorian chant in the Roman Catholic schools of the diocese and trained choirs in the parishes. Having been in the Alexandria diocese for about two years (approximately 1929 to 1931), he worked for the remainder of his life in Grenada in the West Indies, where he became vicar provincial, 1954. The diocese of St. George’s, Grenada, was created in 1956, and Fr Field’s appointment as the first bishop was announced on 24 Jan. 1957. He was consecrated bishop on 25 March 1957. At the ceremony Father Provincial Carpenter presented him with Bishop Couturier’s episcopal ring. Bishop Field died on the feast day of the founder of his order, St. Dominic. According to a biographical note which appears to have been prepared shortly after his death, it was “the day on which he wished to die,” and “was the first feast of St Dominic since his consecration that he had not stood outside the cathedral to welcome all comers to Mass to celebrate the founder of his Order, and to wish them a happy feast.” (Name often misspelled Fields) He was among the clergy in the Sanctuary at the funeral of Euclide Rouleau in Alexandria in 1947. (Glengarry News 6 June 1947)

Information from Fr Sydney A. Charles, Bishop of St. George’s-in-Grenada (1995) * Sinnsearachd (1990) 116 * Villeneuve 31 * Bériault 46