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AntoineFrdric Ozanam was a French scholar. He founded with fellow students the Conference of Charity, later known as the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris in 1997, hence he may be properly called Blessed Frederic by Catholics. His feast day is September 9.

Blessed Frdric Ozanam was born on April 23, 1813, to Jean and Marie Ozanam. He was the fifth of Jean and Marie Ozanamschildren, one of only three to reach adulthood. His family, which claimed to be of Jewish extraction, had been settled in the Lyonnais for many centuries, and had reached distinction in the third generation before Frdric through Jacques Ozanam , an eminent mathematician. Jean Ozanam had served in the armies of the First French Republic, but betook himself, on the advent of the First French Empire, to trade, teaching, and finally medicine.

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