DESURMONT, ACHILLE. - Redemptorist, b. at Tourcoing (Lille) on 23 Dec. 1828, d. at Thury-en-Valois on 23 July 1898. A priest in 1853, he was spiritual director of the students and professor of pastoral theology; superior of the province of France for 22 years, he organized the province of Spain and the missions of the Pacific; he was apostolic visitor of the Little Sisters of the Poor (1892-96).

A man of most profound faith, he consecrated the notable riches of his mind and heart to his religious family in a difficult period. He promoted therein the study of St. Thomas and of St. Alphonsus and worked for the proclamation of the latter as a doctor of the Church. He preached many retreats to priests and to religious communities, and wrote articles, pamphlets and books, most of them published after his death, of which the most important is the pastoral work: La charité sacerdotale, (2 vols., Paris 1899). His writings (collected by Fr. Ribliier in 12 vols., ibid. 1906-13) bear the imprint of his strong personality.

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BIBL.: A. Georges, Le t. rév. p. A. D., Paris 1924; F. Pourrat, La spiritualité chrétienne, IV, ibid. 1928, p. 480; A. Magnier, s. v. in Cath. Enc., IV, p. 756; F. Schubert, s. v. in L'ThK, III, p. 226; M. De Meulemeester, Bibliogr. générale des écrivains redempt., Louvain 1935, p. 115.

Germano Lievin

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