Antoine Chevrier, TOSF was a French Catholic priest and a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis.
18 Facts About Antoine Chevrier
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Antoine Chevrier was the founder of the Sisters of Prado and the Institute of the Priests of Prado.
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Antoine Chevrier was beatified on 4 October 1986 on the occasion of the visit of Pope John Paul II to France.
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Antoine Chevrier was born on Easter on 16 April 1825.
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Antoine Chevrier felt immediate happiness in this realization and decided to become a priest.
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Antoine Chevrier commenced his studies for the priesthood at the age of seventeen in 1842.
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Antoine Chevrier received the cassock in October 1846 and received the tonsure in 1847.
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Antoine Chevrier was ordained to the priesthood on 25 May 1850 from Cardinal Louis Jacques Maurice de Bonald and was sent to Saint-Andre de la Guillotiere as an assistant priest where he became obsessed with the miserable conditions of the poor that he encountered.
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Antoine Chevrier rescued several victims despite the danger to his own life.
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Antoine Chevrier asked to leave his parish to pursue this aim and a meeting with the layman Camille Rambaud in June 1857 hastened this.
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Social unrest threatened Lyon and Paris in 1871 but the conflict in Lyon stalled as Antoine Chevrier celebrated the Feast of Corpus Christi and paraded the Eucharist through the streets; the quarrelers dared not interrupt the celebration.
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Antoine Chevrier was a writer and he wrote both the Disciple of Jesus Christ and God sends Revolutions.
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Antoine Chevrier fell ill in the spring of 1874 which began his long period of illness until his death.
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Antoine Chevrier recovered and made a four-month visit to Rome to be with his future priests.
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Antoine Chevrier knew his death was approaching in September 1879 due to his ailment.
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Antoine Chevrier died on 2 October 1879 after suffering a long illness.
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Antoine Chevrier's order was approved of diocesan right in 1924 and was aggregated to the Conventual Franciscans in 1930.
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On 16 January 1953 he was proclaimed to be Venerable after Pope Pius XII recognized that Antoine Chevrier had lived a model Christian life of heroic virtue.