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The Society of Saint-Sulpice (Latin: Societas Presbyterorum a S. Sulpitio) is a Catholic Society of Apostolic Life named for Eglise Saint-Sulpice, Paris, in turn named for St. Sulpitius the Pious. Typically, priests become members of the Society of St. Sulpice only after ordination and some years of pastoral work. Uniquely, Sulpicians retain incardination in their own dioceses even after joining the society. The purpose of the society is mainly the education of priests and to some extent parish work. As their main role is the education of those preparing to become members of the presbyterate, Sulpicians place great emphasis on the academic and spiritual formation of their own members, who commit themelves to undergoing life-long development in these areas. The Society was founded in Paris by Jean-Jacques Olier (September 20, 1608 – April 2, 1657), an exemplar of the French school of spirituality. He was pastor of the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris in 1642 for the purpose of educating priests. The Sulpician seminaries, above all the one in Paris, were famed for their solid academic teaching and high moral tone. In the 18th century, they were fashionable, attracting the sons of the nobility and producing a large percentage of the French Church's hierarchy. The Sulpician Society is divided into three provinces: France, Canada and the United States of America. The provinces in North America were created chiefly by priests and students who left the turmoil of France after its revolution.
[edit] In Canada[edit] New France The Sulpicians played a major role in the founding of the Canadian city of Montréal, where they engaged in missionary activities, trained priests and constructed the Saint-Sulpice Seminary. In 1657 Olier, shortly before his death, sent four priests (Gabriel de Queylus, Sovart, d'Allet, and Galinier) to take over from the Jesuit Fathers. [1] As the new feudal lords of Montréal, the order granted easy terms to settlers. They tried to encourage settlement of villages around the city as a first line of defense against attacks by native peoples.[2] In 1794 after the French Revolution, twelve Sulpicians fled persecution by the National Convention and emigrated to Montréal, Quebec. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the Sulpicians of Montréal would have died out had not the English Government opened Canada to the priests persecuted during the French Revolution. Under the previous French Colonial government, the King of France had granted the Sulpician Society large parcels of land in Montreal. After lengthy disputes, in 1840 the the British Crown recognized the possessions of the Sulpicians, though these were coveted by the English business agents. This enabled the Sulpicians to keep all their holdings and continue their work for the Church and society. Included in their vast land holdings was the property through which the Lachine Canal was built in 1825. After convincing the government to designate the property on the banks of the canal as industrial zones, the Society began selling off parcels for industrial development at enormous profits that helped finance their good works. Canadian Sulpicians may be found operating in seminaries in Montreal and Edmonton. In 1972 the Canadian Province established a Provincial Delegation for Latin America, based in Bogota, Colombia. In Latin America, the Society functions in Brazil (Brasilia and Londrina) and Colombia (Cali, Cucuta and Manizales). They have also served in Fukuoka, Japan since 1933. [edit] In FranceThe provincial house is based in Paris where the Sulpicians minister in the famous parishes of Saint Sulpice and Notre Dame de Pauvres. They also serve in several French seminaries as well as in Viet Nam and French-speaking African nations. [edit] In the USAOn 10 July 1791, St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore was established by four Sulpicians: Francis Charles Nagot, Anthony Gamier, Michael Levadoux, and John Tessier who fled the French Revolution.[3] They purchased the One Mile Tavern on the edge of the city, and dedicated the house to the Blessed Virgin. In October they opened classes with five students whom they had brought from France, becoming the first Sulpicians in the United States. In March, 1792 three more priests arrived, Rev. Chicoisneau, Rev. John B. David and Rev. Benedict Joseph Flaget. Two seminarians arrived with them, Steven T. Badin and another named Barret. In June 1792 Revs. Ambrose Maréchal, Gabriel Richard and Francis Ciquard arrived. Many of these early priests were sent as missionaries to remote areas of the United States and its territories. Flaget and David founded the Catholic Seminary of St. Thomas, at Bardstown, Kentucky. It was the first seminary west of the Appalachians. Their St. Thomas Catholic Church, built there in 1816, is the oldest surviving brick church in Kentucky. In 1796, Louis William Valentine Dubourg arrived and became the president of Georgetown University. Later he became the first bishop of the Louisiana Territory. In 1898, at the invitation of the Archbishop of San Francisco, Patrick William Riordan, the Sulpicians founded St. Patrick's Seminary, Menlo Park, California. From the 1920s until about 1971, the Society operated St. Edward Seminary in Kenmore, Washington. The grounds now form Saint Edward State Park and Bastyr University. For a brief period in the 1990s, the Sulpicians were also involved in teaching at St. John's Camarillo, the college seminary for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. [edit] Sulpicians todayAccording to the Annuario Pontificio, 330 priests were members of the society in 2004. [edit] References
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