Joseph Wedged , born in 1764 with Metz and died the May 10th 1833 with Laval, is a Religieux French.

Priest Jesuit before the Revolution, it emigrates in Germany and exerts its ministry in a small parish of with dimensions of Munster where it meets a mayennaise family, the Thimble-Brissac, of which one of the girls was to be later the founder of the Bénédictine S of Craon.

Entered among Jesuits of Rīga in 1805 of which he becomes the superior in 1813, he establishes a boarding school, a Hôpital and a welfare office in the city.

Doctor, sometimes even surgeon, it enjoys in the country an extraordinary reputation and even the friendship the Tsar which however drives out the Jesuits of its states in 1820. The Père Wedged is then sent to Laval, where until in 1833, it carries out a life of missionary. Its powerful voice stirs up crowd, and it passes to operate cures: it would have the capacity to cure “files it”, of reading in the consciences and predicting the future.

Died at the house Saint-Michel, its burial takes place the following day with the church Saint-Vénérand: it is buried with the Cimetière the Pre one of Guettière (current place of the Departmental records). When this cemetery is abandoned in 1887, its body is transported to the cemetery of Vaufleury. One can still read engraved on the stele “ which it fought all its life with the weapons of justice and which, close dying, hardly agree he to deposit them ”. Its strong personality left a great memory to Laval where one still sees flowers, candles and Ex-voto S varied on his tomb.