Vincent de Paul Bailly

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Father Vincent de Paul Bailly

Vincent de Paul Bailly (born December 2, 1832 in Berteaucourt-lès-Thennes , † December 2, 1912 in Paris ) was a French Assumptionist - father and publicist .

Life

Vincent de Paul Bailly was a son of the philosophy professor and leading Catholic intellectual Emmanuel Bailly. After graduating from high school, he joined the telecommunications administration and was also involved in Catholic organizations, among others. a. in the Central Council of the Vincentian Conferences .

After a pilgrimage to Notre-Dame de la Garde in Marseille and a retreat with the Assumptionists in Nîmes , where he was influenced by Emmanuel d'Alzon (1810-1880), he decided in 1860 to join the order. He went through the novitiate in Auteuil with François Picard , who then remained his companion for over forty years. In 1861 he was sent to Rome to study theology and was ordained a priest on January 1, 1863 . From 1863 to 1867 he headed the religious college in Nîmes.

In 1867 he accompanied 167 volunteers from Nîmes to Rome to defend the Papal States against Garibaldi . He stayed there as a military chaplain until 1870. In the same capacity, he accompanied French troops in the Franco-German War of 1870/71. Under the impression of the war experiences and the political and social upheavals, he discovered his personal calling: the organization of pilgrimages of prayer and penance - he accompanied groups of pilgrims to the Holy Land no less than 28 times - and the apostolate of journals. In 1880 he founded, in cooperation with Emmanuel d'Alzon, the Maison de la Bonne Presse ( "House of the good press") and the still appearing Catholic daily La Croix that great in the first decades of social influence within the meaning of Ultramontanism but also had anti-Judaism .

He died in Paris on his 80th birthday.

literature

  • Échos d'Orient (editor): Un ami de l'Orient chrétien. Le RP Vincent de Paul Bailly, Assomptionist (1832-1912) . Échos d'Orient 98, 1913, pp. 16-27 (French)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ today Groupe Bayard
personal data
SURNAME Bailly, Vincent de Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French religious and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Berteaucourt-lès-Thennes
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1912
Place of death Paris