SAUVÉ, CHARLES. - Ascetical writer, born 11 Oct. 1848 at Fontaine-Milon (diocese of Angers), died at Saumur on 11 March 1925. In 1872 he was ordained priest and entered the Society of Saint-Sulpice.
From 1875 he taught in the major seminary of Dijon, successively philosophy, dogmatic theology, and moral theology. Driven out by the decrees of Combes (1904), he lived in Alsace, Spain, and finally, after returning to France, at Lourdes and at Saumur near the shrine of Our Lady of Ardilliers, already dear to J. J. Olier. He edified all by his virtues and his resignation amid long illnesses.
He published (in Paris) many volumes, theologically sound but somewhat prolix in style, on the intimate ascetical meaning of Catholic dogmas and devotions: Dieu intime: la Sainte Trinité; Jésus intime; L'ange et l'homme intimes; Etats intimes; Le Sacré-Coeur intime; Le culte du Sacré-Coeur; Les Litanies du Sacré-Coeur; Marie intime; St Joseph intime; L'évangile intime: le culte des mystères et des paroles de Jésus; L'Eucharistie intime; Le prêtre intime; Lourdes intime; Rome intime; Le religieux intime. In a brief laudatory letter (1908), Pius X noted in S.’s work «copiam pondusque rerum, integritatem sententiarum, calidum caritate quodam modo orationis genus».