Frederic Ozanam
| Blessed Frederic Ozanam | |
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 Portrait of Frederic Ozanam | |
| Birth | 23 April 1813 Milan , Lombardy , Kingdom of Italy |
| Deaths | 8 September 1853 (40 years) Marseille , France , Second Empire |
| Nationality |  French |
| Beatification | 22 August 1997 in Paris by John Paul II |
| Revered by | the Roman Catholic Church |
| Servant of God Venerable Happy St. | |
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Antoine-Frdric Ozanam ( Milan , 23 April 1813 - Marseille , 8 September 1853 ), French Catholic historian and essayist, professor of history of foreign literature at the Sorbonne, the founder of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 22 August 1997.
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Biography
His father, Jean-Antoine-Franois Ozanam ( 1 773 - in 1837 ), was a doctor in Milan and former cavalry officer in the armies Napoleon. His mother, Mary Nantas ( in 1781 - 1839 ), was the daughter of a dealer in silks of Lyon. In 1815 , when the city of Milan repassed dominated Austrian , Ozanam family returned to France in Lyon.
Frederick made his classical studies at the Royal College of Lyon. It was marked by the revolt of the silk workers in Lyon. An article he wrote in the French Bee in denouncing the errors of Saint-Simon was especially noticed, especially by Lamartine and Chateaubriand. Then, according to the will of his father, he's right. He first entered an internship at an attorney Lyon. He continued his studies in Paris at the Sorbonne , at the same time he began a course of letters. It was then housed by Ampere. It was then that his political views were directed towards republicanism.
Frederick is both a devout Catholic and a committed student. He does not hesitate to speak in class to denounce the ideas of teachers who convey different ideas about Christianity. He attended the fair including Montalembert. He is also the meeting of Mr. Bailly , who organizes conferences of history and law, which Frederick was active.
It was after an apostrophe of a Saint-Simonian , who asked him why he was interested as well in the past, when there was to help the poor, that his life turned to using the poorest. He decided in April 1833 , with fellow students, parishioners like him in the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont , starting a small company dedicated to the relief of the poor, who took the name of charity Conference.
Subsequently, the conference will be placed under the patronage of St. Vincent de Paul. He was then helped in his task by Sister Rosalie Rendu , a Daughter of Charity very active in the slums of Paris. Mr. Bailey helped organize the new company, including lending him the office of his newspaper, the Catholic Tribune , was the first president. Lent 1833 and 1834 , Frederick sent Bishop Quelen petitions from students for lectures to be held Notre Dame de Paris. These conferences were held for the first time in Lent 1834. In 1835, they were very successful when they were preached by Lacordaire.
In 1836 , Frederick received his doctorate in law and became a lawyer. He practiced this profession for some time at the Royal Court of Lyon. He then steps to be based as a Professor of Law at Lyon. In December 1839 , the post was created and he gave his first course in commercial law. That same year he obtained his doctorate in letters and the aggregation to become a professor of comparative literature at the Sorbonne. In 1841 , he married Mary Josephine Amelia Soulacroix, daughter of the rector of the Academy of Lyon. In 1844 he became Chair of literature, always at the Sorbonne. In 1845 , he became the father of a girl he called Mary. In 1846 , he fell ill and had to stop teaching. It is sent on a mission of research in Italy. During this trip he has some hearing with the new pope, Pius IX , to tell him about the conferences of charity. He resumed teaching in 1847. Following the revolutions of 1848 , he joined the National Guard. He founded the newspaper the new era , with Lacordaire and Abbe Maret. During the insurrection of February, he went to see Bishop Affre asking him to try to restore peace. Affre Bishop was killed when he went to the barricades. Frederick also engaged in politics, presenting himself unsuccessfully in the legislative elections of 1848.
In 1852 , Frederick fell ill again. He should quit teaching and went to the south of France, Italy and Spain to try to heal. He died in Marseilles in 1853 at the age of 40 years.
Posterity
Beatification
He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 22 August 1997 in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris , during World Youth Days in Paris. He said then: "You can see Frederic Ozanam a precursor of the Social Doctrine of the Church, that Pope Leo XIII develop some years later in the encyclical Rerum Novarum. "
Posthumous recognition
A plaque commemorating their meetings is affixed to the facade of a building to the left of the church of Saint Sulpice in Paris. There is also a square in his name beside the church of Notre-Dame des Champs in Montparnasse and a building internship at College Stanislas.
His name was given to a few private institutions of Catholic education in Lille, Limoges, Lyon, Macon, St. Pierre Montlimart (Maine et Loire), Chalons-en-Champagne and even the United States (aid to the Children in Need), Ireland, at a football tournament organized by the Parisian Patronage Sainte-Mlanie , the new church of Cergy-le-Haut , and three French parishes: East of Nancy in the Meurthe- et-Moselle, in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine and Condrieu in the Rhone.
Works
- Two Chancellors of England: Bacon of Verulam and S. Thomas of Canterbury. (1836)
- Essay on the philosophy of Dante (1839)
- " Of Divorce "(1848)
- Germanic Studies (1847-1849)
- The Franciscan Poets in Italy in the thirteenth century (1852)
- Civilization in the fifth century (1856)
- Sermon on the Society of St. Vincent de Paul (1870)
Bibliography
- Cholvy Gerard , Frederic Ozanam, the appointment of a Catholic intellectual in the nineteenth century. Paris: Fayard , 2003, 783 p. This book won the Prix Roland de Jouvenel in 2004 (ISBN: 2-213-61482-2).
- Henri-Dominique Lacordaire " Frederic Ozanam , Jacques Lecoffre, 1856
External Links
- Homily of John Paul II for beatification
- History of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul History of the creation of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul on the website of the French Federation of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul
- Texts and Ozanam biography Biography and texts of Frederic Ozanam on the website of the French Federation of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul * [1] page dedicated to Blessed Frederic Ozanam in the website of the Union of French works Saint Vincent de Paul recognized public utility since 1927
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