RAMIÈRE, HENRY. - Jesuit, theologian, b. at Castres (diocese of Albi) on 10 July 1821, d. at Toulouse on 3 Jan. 1884.
Professor of philosophy and theology at the scholasticate of Vals, then of philosophy of law and of theology at the Catholic Institute of Toulouse. His principal merit was to have inherited from Fr. Gautrelet the Apostleship of Prayer in 1861 and to have developed it and spread it throughout almost the entire world, especially through the Messager du S. Coeur, which he founded that same year and directed until his death. He attended the Vatican Council as theologian of the bishop of Beauvais, and published in Rome a Bulletin du Concile (36 issues: 16 Dec. 1869-20 Aug. 1870), in which one can follow the controversies concerning infallibility, which he vigorously defended with various apologetic writings. He contributed many articles to the periodical Etudes, of which he was director from 1870 to 1873, against liberalism, and to other periodicals on topics of current interest. The best of his works still remain the publications on the League and the devotion of the Sacred Heart: Les espérances de l'Église (Toulouse 1861); L'Apostolat de la prière (ibid. 1859), which had many editions, always better revised, and many translations; and the three posthumous volumes derived from his articles in the Messager and arranged by Fr. E. Laborde: Le mois du S. Coeur de Jésus (ibid. 1890); Le Coeur de Jésus et la divinisation du chrétien (ibid. 1891); Le règne social du S. Coeur (ibid. 1892).
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