Jean-Baptiste Muard

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Jean-Baptiste Muard (Vireaux, 1809-Pierre-Qui-Vire, 1854) was a French Benedictine, reformer, and founder of religious orders.

Ordained in 1834, he was parish priest of Joux-la-Ville and then St. Martin d'Avallon[1] before becoming a monk.

He founded the French province of the Cassinese Congregation of the Primitive Observance[2],, and the Society of Saint Edmund in 1843. He from 1850 founded the monastery of Sainte Marie de la Pierre-qui-Vire[3], in the Morvan.

[edit] References

  • Brullee, Vie de P. Muard (Paris, 1855), tr. Robot, 1882
  • Thompson, Life of P. Muard (London, 1886) Online text
  • Denis Huerre (1994), Petite vie de Jean-Baptiste Muard

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Charles Warren Currier, History of Religious Orders, p. 96.
  2. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. ^ See fr:Abbaye de la Pierre-Qui-Vire.

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