Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Basil Moreau, C.S.C. (February 11, 1799 – January 20, 1873) was the French priest who founded the Congregation of Holy Cross from which two additional congregations were founded, namely the Marianites of Holy Cross and the Sisters of the Holy Cross. Moreau was beatified on September 15, 2007 in Le Mans, France.
Basile Antoine-Marie Moreau was born at Laigné-en-Belin, near Le Mans, France, on February 11, 1799, in the final months of the French Revolution.When Moreau decided to enter the priesthood, he was forced to undergo his seminary training in secret for fear that the French government would arrest him.
Gascoin pronounced first vows in 1844 and the following year Moreau made Mother Marie des Sept-Douleurs superior of the Marianite Sisters at Saint-Laurent on Montreal Island. [ 3 ] In 1857, she was appointed superior general of the entire congregation of Marianite Sisters of Holy Cross, in France, the United States, and Lower Canada.
Holy Cross priests and brothers ran the Collège Saint-Laurent, the sisters taught girls at the nearby Collège Basile-Moreau. In 1970, the Collège Basile-Moreau was purchased by the government of Quebec and became Vanier College. [2] In 1849 four sisters took charge of the boys' orphan asylum in New Orleans, and from there a house was opened ...
Basil Moreau, a priest in the diocese of Le Mans, founded the Auxiliary Priests in 1835, the same year he was entrusted with the Brothers of Saint Joseph, a group founded earlier by Jacques Dujarié. Moreau renamed the site Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix, and on November 1, 1835, the Brothers of Saint Joseph was installed there.
Louis-Basile de Bernage (baptized 4 February 1691, Paris; died 12 May 1767, Paris) [1] was a French aristocrat, seigneur of Saint-Maurice, Vaux, and Chassy, and a politician under the ancien régime. From 1743 to 1757, he was the Prévot des Marchands (Provost of Merchants, a post equivalent to mayor ) of Paris.
Dujarié was born in Sainte-Marie-du-Bois, Mayenne, France on December 9, 1767, the son of Jacques and Françoise Leroux Dujarié. His was a religious family. He studied at the collège in Domfront, founded by the Eudists. He was a student at the Sulpician seminary in Angers when the French Revolution broke out in 1789. [1]
In 1659, three Sisters from Laval, Judith Moreau de Brésoles, Catherine Mace and Marie Maillet were chosen for the first community of Hospitallers of St. Joseph in Montreal in New France to work at the hospital. [4] That year the RHSJ received letters patent from King Louis XIV to take over the hospital and its operations. Each convent was ...