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French Jesuit preacher and author
Portrait of Gustave-Xavier de La Croix de Ravignan
, etching by
Achille-Louis Martinet
after
Juliette de Bourge
, 1855
Gustave Francois Xavier Delacroix de Ravignan
(2 December 1795,
Bayonne
, France – 26 February 1858, Paris, France) was a French
Jesuit
preacher and author. Educated in Paris, he resigned his army commission to study law.
Auditor
of the royal court. Deputy
attorney-general
by 1821.
Entering a
Sulpician
monastery
, and later joining the
Society of Jesus
, he was
ordained
in 1828, and after several years as professor and
retreat
preacher at
Montrouge
, he went to
Notre Dame
, where his logic, serenity, and zeal won souls by the hundreds. Superior of his brethren at
Bordeaux
from 1837 to 1842, and at Paris from 1848 to 1851. He preached throughout France and in Rome,
Belgium
, and London. His calm, eloquent
De l'Existence et de l'Institut des Jesuites
of 1844, vindicating the Society, sold 25,000 copies in one year. However, the
Jesuits
' strife continued until they were forced to disband for a time in France.
Despite painful controversy with his superiors and imputations from other quarters, he remained loyal to his order. In 1854 he brought out
Clement XIII et Clement XIV
, a dispassionate
treatise
, of no great literary merit, on the defender and the suppressor of the
Jesuits
. He steadfastly refused preferment, even the
archbishopric of Paris
, devoting himself to other works. He died a saintly death, and thousands followed the remains of the "Apostle of Paris" to his grave.
Works
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- De l'existence et de l'institut des Jesuites
(7. Ed., Par. 1855)
- Clement XIII et Clement XIV
(2. Ed. 1856, 2 Vols.)
- Conferences prechees a Notre-Dame de Paris
(2. Ed. 1867, 4 Vols.)
- Entretiens spirituels
(2 Vols).
His biography was written by
Jean Joseph Francois Poujoulat
(2. Ed. 1862).
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