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  Congregation of Priests of the Mission
In 1643 the Lazarists were entrusted by Alain de Solminhac, Bishop of Cahors, with a mission house and the direction of the seminary of that city.
The life of Lazarists is above all, an active life, in college, in the seminary, and on the missions, hence their writings have been called forth for some practical utility, or as a result of their scientific explorations and their journeys as missionaries.
These seminaries remained in the charge of the Lazarists for a few years, but most of them were given up owing to the withdrawal of European Lazarists to their own land where religious disturbances had ceased, and the promotion of members to the episcopacy.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/l/lazarists.html   (11751 words)

  
 Iranica.com - xiii.
Lazarist missionaries began their educational work in the 1840s in Western Azerbaijan and gradually extended their activities to Tabr^z, Isfahan, and Tehran in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The curriculum for Lazarist secondary schools for boys was four years, with courses in ancient and modern Assyrian, Persian, French, arithmetic, geography, church history, philosophy, theology, and hymns.
In 1863 a Lazarist school for boys and a Saint Vincent de Paul school for girls were opened in Tabr^z, followed two years later by another school for girls run by the Daughters of Charity.
www.iranica.com /articles/v10f2/v10f216l.html   (3639 words)

  
 Thaddeus Amat
He joined the Lazarists in early manhood and was ordained a priest at the house of that Congregation in Paris, in 1838.
He was master of novices in the houses of the Lazarists in Missouri and Philadelphia in 1841-47, and on the promotion of Bishop Alemany of Monterey to be Archbishop of San Francisco, Father Amat was named to succeed him.
There, under his inspiration, the Lazarists opened St. Vincents College and the Franciscan Brothers took charge of the parochial schools.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/amat,thaddeus.html   (317 words)

  
 LAZARITES - LoveToKnow Article on LAZARITES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
(LAZARISTS or LAZARIANS), the popular names of the " Congregation of Priests of the Mission " in the Roman Catholic Church.
About the same time the canons regular of St Victor handed over to the congregation the priory of St Lazarus (formerly a lazar-house) in Paris, whence the name of Lazarites or Lazarists.
Within a few years they had acquired another house in Paris and set up other establishments throughout France; missions were also sent to Italy (1638), Tunis (1643), Algiers and Ireland (1646).
www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LA/LAZARITES.htm   (553 words)

  
 Lazarists -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lazarites (Lazarists or Lazarians) are the popular names of the Congregation of Priests of the Mission in the (The Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy) Roman Catholic Church.
By a (A formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)) papal bull in January 1632, the society was constituted a congregation, with St Vincent de Paul at its head.
A fresh bull of (Click link for more info and facts about Alexander VII) Alexander VII in April 1655 further confirmed the society; this was followed by a brief in September of the same year, regulating its constitution.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/lazarists.htm   (534 words)

  
 Vincent de Paul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He founded many charitable organizations such as Congregation of the Daughters of Charity, with Louise de Marillac, and the Congregation of Priests of the Mission (Lazarists).
He was appointed by Louis XIII royal almoner of the galleys allowing him to attempt to improve the conditions of the French peasantry.
In 1705 the Superior-General of the Lazarists requested that the process of his canonization might be instituted.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Vincent_de_Paul   (309 words)

  
 History of St. Joseph Catholic Church, New Orleans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It became a center of Catholic worship for many Negro Catholics, with the Vincentian priests serving in the apostolate to the Negro population.
In 1858 the Archdiocese entrusted the parish of St. Joseph to priests of the "Congregation of the Mission" (initials "C.M."), also known as "Vincentians" or "Lazarists." Reverend John Hayden, C.M. was the first of many Vincentian pastors.
In 1859 Father Hayden built a school for boys, taught by Christian Brothers, and in 1864 a school for girls, taught by the daughters of Charity.
www.gnofn.org /~vincent/history.htm   (425 words)

  
 Adventure Tours - Polenezkoy
The settlements of the Polish travelers, which were in the territory of Vincent de Paulo Society that was called Lazarist, on the skirts of Alemdað on the Anatolian edge of the Strait was called Adanköy by the Ottomans.
On the contrary, the settlement that was thought to be a temporary one and whose population is formed from the Polishes survives.
On July in 1842, twelve Polish slaves many of them bought from Çerkez people by Lazarists settle on one part of the territory that is named St. Antonie by the Lazarists and Adampol by the Polishes.
www.adventuretours.com.tr /showinfo.asp?InfoNo=120&Referrer=87   (1927 words)

  
 The Catholic Encyclopedia - John Mary Odin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lazarist missionary, first Bishop of Galveston and second Archbishop of New Orleans, b.
He was prompt to answer Bishop Dubourg's appeal for volunteers for the Louisiana mission.
Reaching New Orleans in June, 1822, he was sent to the seminary of the Lazarists, The Barrens, 80 miles from St. Louis, Mo., to complete his theological studies.
www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Catholic_Encyclopedia/11208a.htm   (689 words)

  
 Lives of the Saints, February 17, St. Francis Regis Clet, St. Flavian
Francis attended the Jesuit college at Grenoble, and in 1769 entered the novitiate of the Lazarists, a missionary Community founded by Saint Vincent de Paul.
In 1789 he was named director of the Lazarist Seminary in Paris, but was obliged by the fury of the revolution in that year, with the entire Congregation, to abandon the mother house.
Saint Francis exposed his desire to be a foreign missionary to his superior, and was sent by him to China in 1791; there he labored for 28 years, entirely alone for several years in a vast district.
magnificat.ca /cal/engl/02-17.htm   (768 words)

  
 Plea for help as vocations boom in Colombia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The country's province of the Lazarist religious congregation has 200 priests - most of them young — and yet has as many as 130 seminarians.
Describing the vocations boom, Colombian Lazarist superior Fr Gabriel Naranjo appealed for help from Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the international Catholic charity which supports persecuted and deprived Christians.
The Lazarists presently have five missionaries in France, and two each in Germany, Spain and Britain.
www.cathnews.com /news/307/150.html   (216 words)

  
 SVP NI - St Vincent de Paul
The alternate name Lazarist Fathers was given to the group when it established headquarters at the former priory of Lazare in Paris in 1632.
The remains of St Vincent were returned to the Lazarists (Vincentian Fathers) in 1795 - and kept in the chapel of the mother-house of the Daughters of Charity until 1830.
On the request of the Archbishop of Paris his remains were transferred to the chapel of the "Maison-Mère" at 95 Rue de Sèvres in Paris.
www.svp-ni.org /about_us_files/st_vincent_de_paul_files/st_vincent_de_paul.htm   (739 words)

  
 H-France Reviews
The priests of the Congregation of the Mission (called Lazarists because their seminary was located in Saint-Lazare) dedicated themselves to preaching and hearing the confessions of the poor.
Pujo speculates that it is because he was concerned his dabbling with alchemy while a slave would hamper the progress of the Lazarists and the Daughters of Charity (pp.
It is not difficult to imagine that there might have been more obvious (and plausible) reasons that de Paul sought to destroy the letter, and it is a bit alarming that Pujo does not mention such interpretations.
www.h-france.net /vol5reviews/dinan.html   (2461 words)

  
 Joseph Rosati
He became a member of the Lazarist order, and studied philosophy and theology in their seminary of Monte Citorio, Rome.
He was made superior of the Lazarists in the United States in 1820, and in 1823 rebuilt his seminary on a larger scale.
He was also for some time administrator of the diocese of New Orleans, and retained the post of superior of the Lazarist order up to 1830.
www.famousamericans.net /josephrosati   (632 words)

  
 History of Tibet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1774 Warren Hastings, Governor of Bengal, sent George Bogle to the Court of the panch'an lama; Captain Samuel Turner went on a visit in 1783 to the Court of the new panch'en lama; finally the Englishman Thomas Manning visited Lhasa in 1811.
Next we come to the celebrated journey to Lhasa of the Lazarists Huc and Gabet in 1844.
For many years afterwards the exploration of Tibet was carried on by "pundits" in the Indian Government service, especially by Nain Sing and the lama, Ugyen Gyatso.
www.historyofnations.net /asia/tibet.html   (1344 words)

  
 Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : September 27, 2004 : Vincent de Paul
He founded the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission or Lazarists to preach especially to country people.
With the help of Louise de Marillac he established the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity to care for young girls, for the needy, sick, and foundlings.
He founded a religious Congregation under the title of Priests of the Mission or Lazarists (now known as Vincentians), and he bound them by a special way to undertake the apostolic work of charity; he sent them to preach missions, especially to the ignorant peasants of that time, and to establish seminaries.
www.catholicculture.org /lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2004-09-27   (615 words)

  
 Products list for :Domaine du Vieux Lazaret   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This offered comfort and shelter for the poor and infirm, provided by the Lazarists, who were a silent order of monks which had been founded in 1625 by St Vincent de Paul to look after the sick and the needy in the French countryside.
They took the name Lazarists from the Priory of St Lazare in Paris, where the original order had been formed in 1632.
The Lazarets in Châteauneuf-du-Pape played a major role in taking in and looking after the sick during the terrible epidemic of plague, which killed a third of the population in 1720.
charton-hobbs.com /Supplier_Files/en/Domaine_du_Vieux_Lazaret_en.html   (289 words)

  
 Spiritual Guidebook - Chapter V - Red Scapular of the Passion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jesus Christ showed the sister a scapular, such as is worn, and promised to all who should wear it on every Friday a great increase of faith, hope, and charity.
The apparition having been several times repeated, and finally in the following year reported to Pius IX, the latter sanctioned the scapular by a Rescript of 25 June, 1847, and granted the Priests of the Mission (the Lazarists) the faculty of blessing the scapular and investing the faithful with it.
The Superior-General of the Lazarists can communicate the faculty of blessing and investing with this scapular to other regular or secular priests.
www.banner.faithweb.com /ch4bscroll-scapularredpassion.htm   (742 words)

  
 Sv. Jožef v Celju - 150 let
Politicaly, France was regarded as “The Mother of the Revolution and of anarchy and liberalism...” Therefore in the Seccau diocese the door closed for the Lazarists but it opened to them in the Lavant diocese, in Celje.
The Bishop of Lavant (today Maribor) Blessed Anton Martin Slomsek invited and welcomed the first Lazarists into his diocese, entrusting them to lead popular missions and to preach retreats.
Bishop Slomsek personally led the procession of thirty priests and a large number of the faithful from the city of Celje to a hill, east of the city centre, to the church of St. Joseph.
www.brezmadezna.com /cm/ann150.htm   (667 words)

  
 Vincentian --  Encyclopædia Britannica
also called Lazarist, member of Congregation of the Mission (C.M.) a Roman Catholic society of priests and brothers founded at Paris in 1625 by St. Vincent de Paul for the purpose of preaching missions to the poor country people and training young men in seminaries for the priesthood.
Following the congregation's approval by Pope Urban VIII in 1632, Vincent took possession of the former priory of Saint-Lazare at Paris, whence the name Lazarists.
French missionary of the Vincentian (Lazarist) order whose account of his journey through China and Tibet provides a vivid picture of China on the verge of modern times.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9075415   (411 words)

  
 Euskal Herria Journal | A Basque Journal | News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A professor of Biology at Spain's University of the Basque Country (EHU), Kepa Altonaga, is the recipient of a CAF-Elhuyar* grant to write the biography of Father Armand David, a missionary and naturalist born in Ezpeleta, in the Basque Country in France, in 1826.
A missionary of the Lazarists Congregation in Peking, Armand David was brought a dead panda by his hunters on March 23, 1869.
The giant panda which was not known outside of China was introduce to the western world by Armand David.
members.freespeech.org /ehj/news/n_environment_panda.html   (633 words)

  
 Vincent de Paul, Saint. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He inspired many of the court to an interest in the poor of Paris and was the founder of organized charity in France.
In 1625 he founded an order of secular priests to work in rural areas; it became the Congregation of the Mission, called Lazarists or Vincentians.
With these priests, St. Vincent conducted retreats, founded seminaries, and achieved widespread reform among the French clergy.
www.bartleby.com /65/vi/VincentdP.html   (245 words)

  
 Mar Matthew Gregory Nakkar
Having travelled to Aleppo to have the Catholics there expelled, he was obliged to wait there until the end of the Muslim fast of Ramadan before the orders could be executed by the authorities.
After the persecutor's initial surprise and fear, the Father Superior won his confidence through his charity and respectful welcome, and soon conversations and discussions followed which turned principally on Monophysitism: was Jesus Christ a real, whole and complete man as well as God, or was He not?
Matthew found his views less easy to defend than he had supposed - he was particularly impressed by the testimonies that Father Godès adduced from the writings of the Syrian doctor St Ephrem, and he asked permission to read himself in the Lazarists' library.
www.redemptorists.org.uk /red/mag/syrian5.htm   (327 words)

  
 Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Thousands of citizens from the whole of Spain went out into the streets when they heard about the break in the truce by the terrorist ETA organization, and appealed to them to reconsider its decision.
TAIPEI, DEC 16 (ZENIT).- During the 1949 repression in communist China, the Lazarist Fathers who were in the country were jailed or sent to forced labor camps.
Maloney asked a question and proposed a challenge: "Is it possible to rethink ways of evangelization creatively in order to be ready when circumstances change?" This task that must not be restricted to a few, but must involve the "entire family" of Lazarists.
www.zenit.org /english/archive/9912/ZE991216.html   (2640 words)

  
 Rhododendron People Page
He was born at Espelette, near Bayonne, September 27, 1826, and entered the Society of Lazarists when twenty-two years of age.
Although ordained as a priest in 1851, it was not until 1862, when he was thirty-six years of age, that he joined the Mission of the Lazarists at Pekin.
As a young priest he had been a student of the natural sciences, and now, in China, he was provided with a new and fascinating field of study which he soon began earnestly to explore.
www.lib.virginia.edu /science/sciscan/rhododendrons/ran0001/people.htm   (6215 words)

  
 New Catholic Dictionary: Congregation of the Mission of Saint Vincent de Paul; Vincentians; Lazarists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Congregation of the Mission of Saint Vincent de Paul; Vincentians; Lazarists
The special object of the congregation determines that each member, besides devoting himself to his own perfection, shall be employed in preaching the Gospel to the poor, especially to poor country people, and in helping ecclesiastics to the knowledge and virtues requisite for their state.
In many countries they are called Lazarists, from the Priory of Saint Lazare, in Paris, where Saint Vincent de Paul dwelt, and where he established his principal works.
www.catholic-forum.com /Saints/ncd02276.htm   (519 words)

  
 LAZARITES (LAZARISTS or LAZARIANS) - Online Information article about LAZARITES (LAZARISTS or LAZARIANS)
LAZARITES (LAZARISTS or LAZARIANS), the popular names of the " See also:
Victor handed over to the congregation the priory of St See also:
Lazarus (formerly a lazarhouse) in Paris, whence the name of Lazarites or Lazarists.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /LAP_LEO/LAZARITES_LAZARISTS_or_LAZARIAN.html   (666 words)

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