Paul de Chastonay

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Paul de Chastonay SJ (born September 13, 1870 in Sierre , Wallis , † November 5, 1943 in Sonvico , Ticino ) was a Swiss Jesuit and publicist .

family

Paul de Chastonay was the son of the Catholic-conservative lawyer and Valais politician Victor de Chastonay . His brother Joseph de Chastonay , also a lawyer and politician, was the founder of Crédit Sierrois and the Catholic newspaper "Patrie valaisanne".

Life

Paul de Chastonay studied law for a year after attending the monastery school in Einsiedeln Abbey , where he met Caspar Melliger . In 1891 he joined the religious order of the Society of Jesus in Blijenbeek, the Netherlands . He studied philosophy in Blijenbeek and Valkenburg from 1893 to 1896 and was then an educator at the Stella Matutina Jesuit college in Feldkirch, Austria . From 1901 to 1905 he finished his training with the study of Catholic theology at the theological faculty of the Jesuits in Valkenburg in the Netherlands. In 1904 he was ordained a priest .

Paul de Chastonay was initially active in the order and headed the novitiate in Feldkirch from 1907 to 1912. In 1912 he became superior in Munich and headed the editorial team of the Jesuit monthly magazine Voices of the Time . From 1913 to 1915 he also supported Joseph Alexis Joye SJ, the Provincial of the German Province. In 1915 he became rector of the central preparatory college in Valkenburg.

In 1918, Chastonay, succeeding Paul de Mathies (1868-1924), was appointed university chaplain in Zurich, where he founded the Association of Catholic Student and Academic Pastoral Care, and later also a network for Catholic graduates, which became known as the "Club Felix" . He was involved as an author in the Swiss Rundschau . In 1921 he became superior of the Missio Helvetica , the Swiss Jesuit Association. From 1928 he was the first Jesuit to set up the Catholic student and academic pastoral care in Bern.

He was a member of the Catholic student union AV Turicia in the Schw. StV .

Fonts

  • Catholicism in Swiss cultural life. Walter, Olten 1927.
  • The statutes of the Jesuit order. Becoming, content, mindset. Benziger, Cologne / Einsiedeln 1938.
  • In the Val d'Anniviers. Räber, Lucerne 1939.
  • Cardinal Schiner. Leaders in church and state. Swiss book lovers, Zurich 1939.
  • The life of the Valais Father Peter Roh 1811–1872. Walter, Olten 1940.
  • Introibo. A priestly book; Readings and Considerations on the Missal. Benziger, Cologne / Einsiedeln 1941.

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personal data
SURNAME Chastonay, Paul de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chastonay, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Jesuit and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Sierre , Canton of Valais
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1943
Place of death Sonvico , Canton Ticino