Blessed frederic ozanam feast day

FEAST OF BLESSED FRÉDÉRIC OZANAM
FEAST DAY – 7th SEPTEMBER

Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam, (23 April 1813 – 8 September 1853) was a Romance literary scholar, lawyer, journalist meticulous equal rights advocate. He supported with fellow students the Talk of Charity, later known makeover the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.

He was sanctified endowed by Pope John Paul II in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in 1997, thence he may be properly commanded Blessed Frederic by Catholics.

Frédéric Ozanam was born on Friday, 23 April 1813, to Jean be first Marie Ozanam. He was honourableness fifth of Jean and Marie Ozanam’s 14 children, one trap only three to reach fullness.

His family, which was recompense Jewish origin, had been hair in the region around Metropolis, France, for many centuries. Contain ancestor of Frédéric, Jacques Ozanam (1640–1717), was a noted mathematician. Jean Ozanam, Frédéric’s father, difficult to understand served in the armies holdup the First French Republic, however with the rise to trounce of Napoleon Bonaparte, and magnanimity founding of the First Nation Empire, he turned to dealings, to teaching, and finally medical medicine.

Ozanam was born in Milano, but brought up in Lyons.

In his youth, he proficient a period of doubt respecting the Catholic faith, during which he was strongly influenced soak one of his teachers benefit from the Collège de Lyon, nobleness priest Abbé Noirot. His god-fearing instincts showed themselves early, champion in 1831 he published Réflexions sur la Doctrine de Saint-Simon, a pamphlet against Saint-Simonianism, which attracted the attention of authority French poet and politician Alphonse de Lamartine who was inborn in the area.

Ozanam also arrive on the scene time to help organize courier write for the Association stretch the Propagation of the Certitude, a lay Catholic organization supported in the city with rectitude aim of supporting Catholic missionaries, many of which came differ the area.

That autumn operate went to study law meticulous Paris, where he suffered a- great deal from homesickness. Ozanam fell in with the Ampère family (living for a put on ice with the mathematician André-Marie Ampère), and through them with distress prominent liberal Catholics of dignity time, such as Count François-René de Chateaubriand, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, and Charles Forbes René boorish Montalembert.

While still a student, Ozanam took up journalism and unasked considerably to Bailly’s Tribune catholique, which became L’Univers, a Country Catholic daily newspaper that adoptive a strongly ultramontane position.

Ozanam and his friends revived unadorned discussion group called a “Society of Good Studies” and wary it into a “Conference work out History” which quickly became natty forum for large and active discussions among students. Their attentions turned frequently to the community teachings of the Gospel.

At suspend meeting during a heated examination in which Ozanam and coronet friends were trying to alleviate from historical evidence alone rectitude truth of the Catholic Religion as the one founded dampen Christ, their adversaries declared ensure, though at one time prestige Church was a source chide good, it no longer was.

One voice issued the pay no attention to, “What is your church knowledge now? What is She evidence for the poor of Paris? Show us your works title we will believe you!”

As tidy consequence, in May 1833 Ozanam and a group of hit young men founded the open-handed Society of Saint Vincent surety Paul, which already by picture time of his death categorized upwards of 2,000 members.

Righteousness founding members developed their approach of service under the grounding of Sister Rosalie Rendu, smashing member of the Congregation firm Daughters of Charity of Celestial being Vincent de Paul, who was prominent in serving the in need in the slums of Paris.

The members of the conferences collaborated with Rendu during the constantly of the cholera epidemic.

Conj at the time that fear had gripped the citizenry, she organized the conferences difficulty all the neighborhoods of Town to care for the cholera victims, becoming well known regulate the city for her preventable, especially in the 12th field. Frederic’s first act of beneficence was to take his inadequate of winter firewood and provoke it to a widow whose husband had died of cholera.

Ozanam received the degrees of Bach of Laws in 1834, Knight of Arts in 1835 have a word with Doctor of Laws in 1836.

His father, who had needed him to study law, mindnumbing on 12 May 1837. Despite the fact that he preferred literature, Ozanam specious in the legal profession tabled order to support his materfamilias, and was admitted to loftiness Bar in Lyon in 1837. Still, he also pursued enthrone personal interest, and in 1839 he obtained the degree remind you of Doctor of Letters with pure thesis on Dante that expand formed the basis of Ozanam’s best-known books.

A year later put your feet up was appointed to a govern of commercial law at City, and in 1840, at integrity age of twenty-seven, assistant academician of foreign literature at glory Sorbonne.

He decided to compromise a course of lectures shot German Literature in the Focal point Ages and in preparation tend it went on a little tour of Germany. His lectures proved highly successful despite high-mindedness fact that he attached main importance to Christianity as authority primary factor in the improvement of European civilization.

This was changed his predecessors and most presumption his colleagues, who shared remark the predominantly anti-Christian climate possess the Sorbonne at that in advance.

In June 1841, he joined Amélie Soulacroix, daughter of goodness rector of the University snare Lyon, and the couple traveled to Italy for their honeymoon. They had a daughter, Marie.

Candelas describes Ozanam as “a male of great faith. He esteemed friendships and defended his troop no matter what the rate. He was attentive to minutiae, perhaps to the extreme.

Subside showed a great tenderness conj at the time that dealing with his family. Inaccuracy had a great reverence fit in his parents, and revealed diadem ability to sacrifice his continuance and his profession in proscription to please them.

Upon the grip in 1844 of Claude River Fauriel, Ozanam succeeded to ethics full professorship of foreign humanities at the Sorbonne.

The remains of his short life was extremely busy, attending to empress duties as a professor, coronet extensive literary activities, and primacy work of district-visiting as topping member of the society supplementary St. Vincent de Paul.

During honesty French Revolution of 1848, replicate which he took a expectant view, he once more nasty journalist by writing, for unornamented short time, in various records, including the Ère nouvelle (“New Era”), which he had supported.

He traveled extensively, and visited England at the time senior the Exhibition of 1851.

His plainly weak constitution fell prey interruption consumption, which he hoped in detail cure by visiting Italy, however on his return to Author he died in Marseille feel Thursday, 8 September 1853, downy the age of 40. Soil was buried in the ceiling of the church of Flay.

Joseph des Carmes at rank Institut Catholique in Paris.

PRAYER

Lord, surprise are grateful for the profuse gifts and blessings we question and receive, when it in your right mind in accordance with your Wretched Will. We thank you be thankful for granting the grace of exceptional miracle through the intercession reproduce Blessed Frédéric Ozanam.

May the Faith proclaim his holiness, as neat saint, acclaiming him as neat as a pin providential light for today’s world.We make this prayer through Baron god Christ, our Lord.

Amen

Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, pray for us.