He was born at Tours on April 19, 1734. He joined the congregation of the priests of Saint-Sulpice. He gained a doctorate in theology from the University of Nantes[1] and was sent as professor of theology to the Seminary of Nantes. He was made superior of the small seminary,[2] then director of the large seminary.
The French Revolution led to his travelling to the US in 1791 and establishing St. Mary's, the first Catholic seminary and college in Baltimore.[3][4] He died at Baltimore on April 9, 1816.[5]
Publicationsedit
Relation de la conversion de quelques Protestants (1791)
La Doctrine de l'Ecriture sur les miracles (1808, a translation of an English work by George Hay)
Vie de, M. Olier, cure de Saint-Suilpice (1813)
and several translations of works of English piety.[5]
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