The Life Of M. Olier, Founder of the Seminary of St. Sulpice
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- The Life Of M. Olier, Founder of the Seminary of St. Sulpice
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The Life Of M. Olier, Founder of the Seminary of St. Sulpice
Author: Thompson, Edward Healy, 1813-1891
Year: 1861
CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS OF M. OLIER — HIS CONVERSION. His birth and baptism at Paris. First indications of his vocation and mission. His devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Natural liveliness of his disposition. His family removes to Lyons. An adventurous feat. He receives the tonsure, and a benefice. S. Francis de Sales foretells his future services to the Church ; blesses him on his death-bed. He receives peculiar favours from God. Desires to embrace the religious state. Returns with his family to Paris, and enters the University. Attends the schools of the Sorbonne. Becomes abbe of Pebrac ; a fashionable preacher ; and a man of the world. Marie de Gournay ; effects of her prayers. M. Olier goes to Rome to study Hebrew ; his sight affected. He makes a pilgrimage to Loreto, and becomes a changed man. — Page 1. CHAPTER II. COMMENCEMENT OF HIS APOSTOLIC LIFE — HIS VOCATION, AND ELEVATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD. Death of his father ; he is summoned home. His mother's character and conduct. His extraordinary devotion in instructing the poor of Paris, and young scholars. Consequent anger and scorn of his relatives and acquaintances. Influence of his example. Assists his cousin, Mile, d