1. Jean-Jacques Lartigue attended the College Saint-Raphael, followed by two years at an English school run by the Sulpicians, receiving a solid education.
28 Facts About Jean-Jacques Lartigue
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue then clerked for three years with a Montreal law firm where he developed a lifelong interest in the politics of Lower Canada.
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In 1797, Jean-Jacques Lartigue gave up a promising career in the legal profession and turned toward the Catholic priesthood.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue soon received minor orders and later the diaconate from Bishop Pierre Denaut of Quebec and taught at his Saint-Raphael, while he studied for the priesthood under the Sulpicians.
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On 21 September 1800, Jean-Jacques Lartigue was ordained a priest by Bishop Denaut at the Church of Saint-Denis on the banks of the Richelieu River, where another uncle, Francois Cherrier, was cure.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue helped not only in the administrative affairs of the diocese, but in the pastoral duties at Longueuil, where the bishop resided as cure.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue joined the Sulpician community of the Seminary, the first native Canadian to enter the Society.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue was assigned to help in the Parish of Notre-Dame which was attached to the Seminary.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue was entrusted with the superior of the Seminary with a mission to London to present their case directly to the government in England.
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The superior chose Jean-Jacques Lartigue as being particularly qualified for the mission because of his knowledge of the law and his mastery of English.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue spent the following two months meeting with various officials of the British government, even the Vicar Apostolic in London, who was the chief authority for the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue returned to Canada, believing his mission a failure.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue already had Lartigue in mind for one of these positions.
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In February 1820 Jean-Jacques Lartigue was named an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Quebec and appointed vicar general for Montreal, for which position he was consecrated as a bishop on 21 January 1821 in the Church of Notre-Dame.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue was given the major responsibility for administering the various and many Catholic institutions of the city and region.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue found himself at odds with his former Sulpician colleagues.
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In June 1821, while Jean-Jacques Lartigue was away visiting rural parishes, the warders removed his episcopal chair from the church.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue placed his secretary Ignace Bourget in charge of the building project.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue placed a trusted associate, Ignace Bourget, in charge of the new facility.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue had been influenced in this by the writings of the French Abbe Hugues Felicite Robert de Lamennais, whose Essai sur l'indifference en matiere de religion he had read at the time of his trip to Europe.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue was shaken by the condemnation of Pope Gregory XVI of Lamennais' teachings in the 1830s.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue focused on the primary education of the young, which he felt to be a responsibility of the Church, rather than the state.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue urged the pastors to take advantage of this law and to set up schools as part of their parishes.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue set up a school for this purpose, in his official residence.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue founded a second school at a separate location.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue forbade the burial in consecrated ground of patriots killed during the rebellions.
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The moderate Patriotes of the Quebec took note of Jean-Jacques Lartigue's warning against an unequal conflict.
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Jean-Jacques Lartigue is buried in the crypt of the Cathedrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde.