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Ozanam, Antoine
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Litterateur and philanthropist; nephew of Jacques Ozanam; born Milan, Italy, April 23, 1813; died Marseilles, France, September 8, 1853. He studied law at Paris, filled a judicial post at Lyons, and two years later returned to Paris to submit his brilliant doctorate thesis on Dante. He was a member of the faculties of Lyons, Paris and the Sorbonne. From his student days he was imbued with an ardent desire to serve the Church and to make known to all the benefits of Christianity. His writings, which include Etudes Germaniques (Germanic Studies), Poetes franciscains en Italie (Franciscan poets in Italy), and his masterpiece La civilisation chretienne chez les Francs (Christian civilization among the Franks), were inspired by this motive. When only twenty, with seven companions, he laid the foundation of the Saint Vincent de Paul Society; later he was one of the group who induced Archbishop de Quelen of Paris, to inaugurate the famous Coufereuces de Notre Dame.
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Entry for 'Ozanam, Antoine'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/o/ozanam-antoine.html. 1910.
