MARC, CLÉMENT

MARC, CLÉMENT. - Redemptorist, born at Jouy-sous-les-Côtes (Verdun) on 24 July 1831, died at Rome on 27 January 1887.

He taught moral theology to his confreres at Tétérchen, where he was also rector. He compiled the Institutiones morales Alberti (1835; 20th ed., Lyons 1943), which were received and adopted with great satisfaction, and also abridged into an Epitome (Rome 1930) by S. Gianni. M. was also an expert canonist and a distinguished spiritual director.

BIBL.: R. Henry, Histoire d'une âme victime, Caroline Clément, Bar-le-Duc 1918, passim; M. De Meulemeester, Bibliographie générale des écrivains rédemptoristes, II, Louvain 1935, p. 267.