BAGLIN, MICHEL

BAGLIN, MICHEL. – Superior General of the Carthusians, born in Château-Gontier on 15 November 1839, died in Pisa on 20 January 1922. Ordained a priest in 1862, professed Carthusian in 1883, vicar of the Valbonne Charterhouse in 1888, prior of the Grande-Chartreuse and Superior General of the Order on 14 October 1892. A learned and elegant cultivator of the Latin language, and a religious man full of zeal and firmness, he was, together with his monks, a victim of the sectarian law of suppression of 1901, under which the French Chamber decreed the dispersal of the ancient and meritorious Order. After writing a noble and proud letter to Combes at Easter 1903—a letter that caused a considerable stir in the French press—B. and the monks were driven at gunpoint from the Grande Chartreuse on 29 April of that year, subsequently emigrating to Italy and causing the Charterhouse of Lucca to flourish through their virtue and learning.