Daniel Brottier

Daniel Brottier (born September 7, 1876 in La Ferté-Saint-Cyr , France, † February 28, 1936 in Auteuil ) was a French Spiritan and is a blessed of the Catholic Church.

Daniel Brottier (with a long beard) as a missionary in Senegal (stained glass window in the Sainte-Thérèse chapel in Paris)

Life

Daniel Brottier was born on September 7, 1876 in La Ferté-Saint-Cyr in the Loir-et-Cher department . He studied theology at the seminary in Blois and was ordained a priest in 1899. In 1902 he joined the Spiritan Order, which sent him to Senegal in 1903 as a missionary . He was particularly committed to helping young people in Dakar . During his work, however, he fell ill and had to return to his home country in 1911. This did not prevent him from continuing to support the mission in Senegal from France through the Souvenir Africain aid organization he founded .

In 1923 his order commissioned Daniel Brottier to manage the Orphelins Apprentis orphanage in Auteuil, a district of Paris. Until his death in 1936, he devoted himself to this task with empathy for the needs of young people, with pioneering educational reforms and with organizational power. He died in Auteuil on February 28, 1936 at the age of 59.

On November 25, 1984 Daniel Brottier was beatified by John Paul II .

literature

Ekkart Sauser : bread animal, Daniel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 252. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Footnotes

^ Apprentis d'Auteuil - Histoire , accessed March 3, 2013.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Bread animal, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French spiritan
DATE OF BIRTH	September 7, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	La Ferté-Saint-Cyr
DATE OF DEATH	February 28, 1936
Place of death	Auteuil

[1] Apprentis d'Auteuil - Histoire , accessed March 3, 2013.