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Sulpicians - Sulpician Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The Sulpician Order (P.S.S.), known as the Company of St. Sulpice, was founded at Vaugirard, near Paris, in 1641, by Jean-Jacques Olier, for the training of candidates for the priesthood, in accordance with the directions of the Council of Trent. |
 | | Maisonneuve, in order to found a city on the island of Montreal consecrated to the Virgin Mary: This was done in May, 1642. |
 | | To-day the Sulpician Order carries on the work assigned to it by its founder — that is to say, teaching through the order's seminaries and colleges, parochial ministry at the churches of Notre Dame, St. James, and Oka, and missionary activities at Oka and in Japan. |
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