BAUDOUIN, LOUIS-MARIE, venerable. – Priest, born at Montaigu on 2 August 1765, died at Chavagnes on 12 February 1835. A curate at Luçon, he was imprisoned by the revolutionaries, but managed to take refuge in Spain. Having returned to France, he was appointed parish priest at Jonchère in 1800, where he founded the Congregation Sons of Mary Immaculate (v.). After his transfer to Chavagnes, he met Sister S. Benedetto and in 1801 initiated the institute of the Ursulines of Jesus (v.). In 1812 he was appointed rector of the major seminary and vicar general at La Rochelle, then at Luçon. In 1825 he retired to Chavagnes, where he wrote several works of an ascetic character. His cause of beatification was introduced on 7 September 1871.
BIBL.: H. Hélyot, Dict. des Ordres religieux, IV, Paris 1850, cols. 760–65; 1538–44; A. Aillaume, Le doctrine du vén. B., in Vie spirituelle, 6 (1924) and 7 (1925); J. Robin, s. V. in DSP., I, cols. 1286–87.