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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.
The Marianites of Holy Cross (MSC) is a Catholic congregation of nuns, founded in Le Mans, France, in 1841, by Fr Basil Moreau. It was founded as a third distinct society within the Congregation of Holy Cross. The Marianites of Holy Cross is now an independent congregation.
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.
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 ...
In 1837, Basil Moreau established the Congregation of Holy Cross. The congregation took its name from the neighborhood of Sainte Croix in Le Mans, where the 12th-century church, Notre Dame du Sainte Croix, was to become the mother church of the new foundation. [1] In 1841, Moreau founded a society of sisters within the Congregation. [2]
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.
Father Edward Sorin, C.S.C., founder. In 1839, the bishop of Vincennes, Right Rev. Célestine Guynemer de la Hailandière, had contacted Rev. Basil Moreau, C.S.C., founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and expressed to him his concern over the lack of Catholic education in his diocese and pleaded for Moreau to send him a priest and four brothers to set up a school.