Louis-Charles Michel
Louis-Charles-Jean-Baptiste Michel , also Louis Michel (born July 12, 1761 in Aix-en-Provence , † February 22, 1845 in Fréjus ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop .
life and career
The priest
Louis-Charles-Jean-Baptiste Michel was ordained a priest in 1785 and employed at the Aix-en-Provence seminary. He fled to Italy ( Ferrara ) before the French Revolution . Back in France, he was pastor of various parishes in Toulon , from 1821 of the cathedral church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Seds . In 1824 he was accepted into the Legion of Honor . When Bishop Richery von Fréjus took over the Archdiocese of Aix in 1829 , he proposed Michel as his successor.
The Bishop of Fréjus
As Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon from 1829 to 1845, he visited all parishes under his control twice. During the cholera epidemic of Toulon in 1835 he showed himself fearless and tireless in caring for the sick, while his young vicar general, Joseph-Antoine Dubuy (1796-1835), perished. He settled Salesian Sisters in Grasse , in Fréjus Carmelites, and founded the Congregation of the Sœurs de Notre-Dame de Miséricorde du Bon Pasteur de Draguignan (Sisters of Our Lady of the Mercy of the Good Shepherd) in Draguignan in 1838 , which in 1955 in the of the Blessed Marie-Thérèse de Soubiran founded Société de Marie Auxiliatrice (Society of the Perpetually Helping Mary). Michel died in 1845 at the age of 83 without any previous illness and was buried in the Cathedral of Fréjus .
Web links
- Information on Louis-Charles Michel in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Short biography , French
- Entry in catholic-hierarchy.org
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Michel, Louis-Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Michel, Louis-Charles-Jean-Baptiste (full name); Michel, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1761 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aix-en-Provence |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1845 |
| Place of death | Fréjus |