OLICHON, ARMAND-LOUIS-JOSEPH-MARIE. — Born in Rennes on 11 April 1878, died in Paris on 19 May 1936. After completing his secondary studies, he entered the Dominican novitiate in Flavigny (Seine-et-Oise) in 1866.
Ill health prevented him from continuing, and upon returning to secular life in 1890, he began medical studies and later turned to philosophy. In 1903, he became a professor of philosophy at the College of Saint Dominic. In 1904, he entered the Seminary of Saint Sulpice and was ordained priest on 15 June 1908. From 1911 to 1913, he served as private secretary to the Bishop of Meaux and later as chaplain at the "des Francs Bourgeois" School in Paris. On 3 December 1921, he became secretary of the Missionary Union of the Clergy in Paris, and on 20 February 1926, director of the Work of Saint Peter the Apostle, which was united with the Work of the Propagation of the Faith on 24 June 1927. He then devoted himself entirely to the Missionary Union of the Clergy, becoming its national director in 1930. He published various pamphlets and works, exerting a profound influence. Notable among them is *Les missions. Histoire de l'expansion du catholicisme dans le monde* (Paris 1936).