Jean Jacques Olier


JeanJacques Olier, S.S. was a French Catholic priest and the founder of the Sulpicians. He helped to establish the Socit NotreDame de Montral, which organized the settlement of a new town called VilleMarie in the colony of New France.

Olier was born in Paris, but the family moved to Lyon, where his father had become a judge. There he was given a thorough education in the classics at the local Jesuit college . He was encouraged to become a priest by St. Francis de Sales, who predicted his sanctity and great services to the Catholic Church.

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