ROUGIER, FÉLIX. - Priest, founder of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit (v.), b. at Meilhaud on 17 Dec. 1859, d. in Mexico on 10 Jan. 1938.

At the age of 18 he took the habit of the Marist Fathers at Ste-Foy, and on 24 Sept. 1887 he was ordained a priest in Lyon. In 1885 he undertook the founding of several colleges in Colombia and then in Mexico, where he found the complex of the Works of the Cross already under way. Transferred to Barcelona, he remained there for 10 years devoted to teaching, but the Mexican episcopate pressed Blessed Pius X and obtained the return of R., who on 25 Dec. 1918 gave beginning to his Institute and entered it in 1930 with the permission of the Holy See. In contrast with the times, he intended to restore in himself and in his sons the monastic spirit and even the penances of the ancients, which have by now become connatural in the Institute.

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BIBL.: E. Iturbide, Il P. F. R., Rome 1939; I. Guadalupe Trevino, Un apostol de la Cruz, Mexico 1940; I. Padilla, Hacia al Divino Padre, Lima 1950; I. Guadalupe Trevino, Breve noticia de los Misioneros del Espirito Santo, Mexico 1951.

Gioacchino Madrigal

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Rougier, Félix

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