CHEVRIER, Antoine, Venerable. - Born in Lyon on 16 April 1826, died there on 2 October 1879. A student at the seminary of Lyon, he left it a priest on 25 May 1850. As curate in the working-class parish of St. Andrew, he took special care of the young, for whom in 1857 he founded the institute "La Providence du Prado" with the aim of preparing them for Holy Communion and setting wayward and deficient children on the path to work. In Grenoble he then founded a community of sisters for the service of the Prado, enrolled in the Franciscan Third Order, and another of priests, for whom he wrote the volume: Le prêtre ou le véritable disciple de N.-S. Jésus-Christ.

The cause of beatification was introduced on 11 June 1913.

Bibliography5 works

BIBL.: AAS, 5 (1913), pp. 309-11; C. Chambost, Vie nouvelle du v. p. C., Lyon-Paris 1920; the same author also published the works of C. (Le prêtre, ibid. 1924; Lettres, ibid. 1927); A. Ancel, s. v. in DSp, II, coll. 835-37.

Rosa Alba Squadrilli

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