Giulio (Jules Jacques Louis) Jalia

Translation

Julius Jalla

Julius (Jules Jacques Louis) Jalla (August 31, 1838 - September 16, 1866), pastor evangelist .

Biography

Born to handle Germanasca Valley, was the son of Pastor Louis Auguste Jalla and Adèle Biolley, a young Swiss born in Turin.

Left motherless at the age of three years, with his sister Adèle of just a few months, he was raised by his paternal aunt Betsy, and the maternal aunt Aline Biolley, who in 1848 married his father, from this second marriage were born brothers Edward Jalla , pastor and director of the publishing Claudiana, Adolfo Jalla , Jalla Luigi , both pastors and missionaries in Africa, and John Jalla , historian and teacher.

From 1857 he studied theology at Torre Pellice by ending the Waldensian Faculty of Theology of Florence and Edinburgh, where he remained a year, at the Faculty of the Free Church of Scotland.

Consecrated in 1861, in November of that year was pastor evangelist in Pinerolo, with the care of Prarostino, Osasco and Vigone. From April of 1862 until 1864 he was assistant to Turin with the special care of the diaspora from Cirie up to Pietra Marazzi, was then pastor holder in Brescia, which provvedeva alternating with Emilio Comba station Guastalla (1864-1865) and finally in 1865 in Genoa and Sampierdarena, where he succeeded his pastor Antonio Gay .

He married in 1864 Joséphine Dolfus, Mulhouse, of Catholic origin, known in Turin where he was governess of the children of a banker jew, with whom he had Adèle, born 21 January 1865 and Juanita (known as Anita), born September 6, 1866: the two children were left orphaned at an early age because a few days after the birth of the second child, Giulio died September 16, 1866, followed the next day by his wife, because of the cholera epidemic broke out in Genoa.

Archival sources

Archive of the Tavola Valdese (ATV), series IX, folder 23, Jalla Giulio. Archive of the Waldensian Studies Society (ATV), Fund Family Cards Jalla.

Key publications

J. Jalla, The Lord's Day: a divine institution, continuing obligation to observe it, its nature, Florence, Claudiana, 1863.

Bibliography

Nécrologie, in "L'Echo of the Valleys', n. 9, September 1866, p. 141-142.