Xavier de Ravignan

Gustave-Xavier of the Cross of Ravignan (1795-1858) was a Jésuite French.

Resulting from a family of minor nobility of Bayonne origin (anoblie family at the XVIIIe century by the load of adviser-secretary of the king with Bayonne) later established in Armagnac (Gascogne), it brilliantly fulfills during a few years the functions of Substitut at the bar of Paris, then left the world to enter to the Séminaire of the Jesuits in Issy Moulineaux. He devoted himself to the Prédication with much of charisma with Notre Dame, in Paris, in Belgium or in Rome, competing with there the reputation of the father Lacordaire. He was however also his burning school-fellow and that of Monseigneur Dupanloup in the fights of the time around the freedom of the Church and teaching in France, combat which were to lead to the vote of the law Falloux and the specific statute of secularity in the French Republic.

One has of him:

of the Conferences , preached with Notre-Dame de Paris,
of the spiritual Talks ,
a Apology for Clement XIII and Clement XIV ,
Of the existence and Institute of the Jesuits ,
the funeral oration of the archbishop of Paris Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen.

See too

François de Ravignan

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