Enciclopedia Cattolica

Chevrier, Antoine, Venerable

CHEVRIER, ANTOINE, VENERABILE

Volume III · p. 824 · 1949

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

CHEVRIER, ANTOINE, venerable. – Born in Lyon on 16 April 1826, he died there on 2 October 1879. A student at the seminary of Lyon, he was ordained a priest on 25 May 1850. As curate in the working-class parish of St Andrew, he devoted special care to the young, for whom in 1857 he founded the institution «La Providence du Prado», with the aim of preparing wayward and mentally deficient children for Holy Communion and initiating them into work. He later founded at Grenoble a community of sisters for the service of the Prado, affiliated with the Third Order of Franciscans, and another community 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.

BIBL.: AAS, 5 (1913), pp. 309–11; C. Chambost, Vie nouvelle du V. p. C., Lyon–Paris 1920; the same author also published C.’s works (Le prêtre, ibid. 1924; Lettres, ibid. 1927); A. Ancel, s. V. in DSp, II, cols. 835–37. Rosa Alba Squadrilli
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“CHEVRIER, ANTOINE, VENERABILE.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), p. 824. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/chevrier-antoine-venerabile.