24 Facts About Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier was a French Dominican friar and religious priest, who served as the 76th Master of the Order of Preachers from 1904 until 1916.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier was born Louis-Stanislas-Henri Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier on 8 December 1832, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, in Orleans, France, of a well-to-do family of merchants.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier's father died when he was still young, after which his mother took him and his only brother Eugene to live near their uncle who was a priest.

In 1846, at the age of thirteen, Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier entered the minor seminary of the Diocese of Orleans.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier was proficient at playing the flageolet, the organ, and the ophicleide, and had a fine singing voice.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier maintained his enthusiasm for music throughout his life, especially sacred music.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier was admitted into the Third Order of Saint Dominic while a seminarian.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier was ordained in 1856 by Felix Dupanloup, Bishop of Orleans.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier was granted a dispensation to be ordained without having reached the canonical age.

Shortly after his ordination for the diocese Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier felt called to enter the first Dominican Order, which had been officially re-established in France in 1850 after its suppression by the French government.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier went to Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, where Henri Lacordaire had open a novitiate for the Order of Preachers.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier became willing to make the case to the Holy See for a special dispensation for Cormier to be professed.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier repeatedly failed to meet the papal requirement, going as far as 29 days without an attack, but never a full month.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier eventually fell so severely ill that he was expected to die.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier was then appointed prior of the community in Marseilles, where he completed construction of a church and priory.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier left this position when he was once more elected Prior Provincial in 1878, an office he held until 1888.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier was elected definitor for the General Chapter at Lyons in 1891.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier was noted for the quality of his retreats and his powerful preaching.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier's influence helped to bring about the beatifications of Reginald of Orleans, Bertrand Garrigua, Raymond of Capua and Andrew Abellon.

The General Chapter in 1904 directed Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier to develop the College into a studium generalissimum for the entire Order.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier's body was laid in state at the church of San Clemente.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier was buried at the Campo Verano cemetery, Rome, in the tomb of the Order of Preachers.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier's cause was formally opened on 22 June 1945, granting him the title of a Servant of God.

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 20 November 1994.