Emmanuel d'Alzon
Emmanuel-Joseph-Marie-Maurice Daudé d'Alzon (born August 30, 1810 in Le Vigan , Gard department , † November 21, 1880 in Nîmes ) was a French religious priest of the Assumptionists , publicist and founder of the order . During the beatification process , Pope John Paul II made him a venerable servant of God in 1991 .
Life
Emmanuel d'Alzon came from a noble family from the Cevennes in the Massif Central ; he was the oldest of four children. After a private primary school education at the family castle in Lavagnac in the Hérault department , he attended the secondary schools Lycée Louis-le-Grand and Collège Stanislas de Paris from 1823 to 1828 , both in Paris, where he also met the Catholic priest, philosopher and political activist Félicité de Lamennais got to know. In 1828 he began to study law, which he did not pursue due to his encounters with the Dominican Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire , the Catholic theologian and founder of La Revue catholique Olympe-Philippe Gerbet , the historian and politician Charles de Montalembert and others.
In 1832 he entered the seminary of Montpellier ; In 1835 he moved to Rome to further study theology . He was ordained a priest on December 26, 1834 . D'Alzon was initially a priest in Nîmes and became vicar general in the diocese of Nîmes in 1839 . In 1845, with the help of Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, he founded the order of the Assumptionists , a congregation for men (including Étienne Pernet ). In 1862 he met Pope Pius IX. and introduced him to his religious community. In 1865 he founded the Oblates of the Admission of Mary and in 1896 the Congregation of Assumptionists.
In 1880, in collaboration with Vincent de Paul Bailly , d'Alzon founded the Maison de la Bonne Presse ("House of the Good Press") and the Catholic daily La Croix , which is still published today and which had great social influence in the first few decades.
literature
- Bernoville, Gaétan: Emmanuel D'Alzon , Bayard 2003, ISBN 1-58595-296-6
- Guissard, Lucien: The Assumptionists: From Past to Present , Bayard 2002, ISBN 1-58595-207-9
- Sève, André: Christ Is My Life: The Spiritual Legacy of Emmanuel d'Alzon , New City Press 1988, ISBN 0-911782-65-6
- Tavard, George: "Emmanuel d'Alzon," New Catholic Encyclopedia 1967
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alzon, Emmanuel d ' |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Daudé d'Alzon, Emmanuel-Joseph-Marie-Maurice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French assumptionist, publicist and founder of the order |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Le Vigan , Gard department |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1880 |
| Place of death | Nîmes |