FERON-VRAU, CAMILLE. - Born in Tourcoing on July 23, 1831, died in Lille on March 30, 1908. A physician, he founded for physicians the Association of St. Luke and the pious Association of the Sick, whose bulletin still flourishes. He shared with his brother-in-law, Philibert Vrau, the ideal of apostolate and used his wealth to give impetus to Catholic and social works. Among other things he provided, almost single-handedly, for the creation of the faculty of medicine at the Catholic University of Lille and its numerous affiliated institutions.
Having made himself an apostle of the directives given by Leo XIII concerning the workers' question, he promoted the Association of Employers of the North, founded the Industrial School, thus seeking to give life to Christian employers' associations. He concerned himself with particular devotion with the Work of Our Lady of the Treille, patroness of Lille, and with the Work of Our Lady of Lourdes. Pius XI marked the introduction of his cause of beatification on June 17, 1930.
Bugnini, Annibale. “Feron-Vrau, camille.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 1180. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/feron-vrau-camille.
MLA
Bugnini, Annibale. “Feron-Vrau, camille.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1180. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/feron-vrau-camille.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec5_feron_vrau_camille,
author = {Bugnini, Annibale},
title = {Feron-Vrau, camille},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {V},
pages = {1180},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/feron-vrau-camille}
}
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