Claude La Colombière
French Jesuit priest and saint / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Claude La Colombière, S.J. was a French Jesuit priest best known as the confessor of Margaret Mary Alacoque. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.
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Claude La Colombière | |
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Religious, priest and confessor | |
Born | (1641-02-02)2 February 1641 Saint-Symphorien-d'Ozon, Dauphiné, Kingdom of France |
Died | 15 February 1682(1682-02-15) (aged 41) Paray-le-Monial, Duchy of Burgundy, Kingdom of France |
Venerated in | Catholic Church (Society of Jesus) |
Beatified | 16 June 1929, Vatican City, by Pope Pius XI |
Canonized | 31 May 1992, Vatican City, by Pope John Paul II |
Major shrine | Jesuit Church, Paray-le-Monial, Saône-et-Loire, France |
Feast | 15 February |
Patronage | Toymakers, devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus |
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His feast day is the day of his death, 15 February. He was a missionary and ascetical writer. Colombière left a large number of writings, including his principal works, Pious Reflections, Meditations on the Passion, and Retreat and Spiritual Letters.