Côte-Saint-Paul is a neighbourhood located in the Southwest Borough of Montreal , Quebec , Canada.
80-749: The concession of côte Saint-Paul was granted by the Sulpician Order , seigneurs of the Island of Montreal , in 1662. It extended northward from the current site past the current location of the Lachine Canal to Lac à la Loutre, which was then located at the foot of the Falaise Saint-Jacques , where the Turcot yards are today. The area was essentially agricultural, and remained so until the Lachine Canal bisected
160-539: A fort (1685). Alcohol traffic, major loss of mission housing by fire in 1694, and other factors necessitated the move of the first mission to one on the edge of the rivière des Prairies, near the Sault-au-Récollet rapids, in north end Montreal island. In 1717, the Compagnie de Saint-Sulpice de Paris was granted. a concession (~10.5 miles of frontage, ~9 miles deep) named seigneurie du Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes. In 1721,
240-608: A bookstore was opened at the parish church to supply good literature. It would appear that Vincent de Paul so esteemed Olier that in February 1644 he risked the ire of Cardinal Mazarin by obtaining a benefice for Olier that Mazarin was seeking for the son of the Duke de la Rouchefoucault. In 1645, Olier founded the Society of St. Sulpice, which established seminaries throughout France that became known for their moral and academic teaching. During
320-798: A brief period in the 1990s, the Sulpicians were also involved in teaching at St. John's Seminary in Camarillo , the college seminary for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles . In 1917, the construction of the Sulpician Seminary began in Washington, D.C. , next to The Catholic University of America . The seminary, which became an independent institution in 1924, changed its name to Theological College in 1940. It has graduated over 1,500 priests, including 45 bishops and four cardinals . American Sulpicians gained
400-593: A collaborative approach to priestly formation with the bishops of Zambia. As of 2014 the American Province has several seminary placements in Zambia and a number of new Zambian Sulpicians and Candidates. The American Province has also distinguished itself by producing several outstanding scholars and authors in the field of theology and scriptural studies. Among the most well-known was Scripture scholar Raymond E. Brown , S.S.. The 2012 Annuario Pontificio gave 293 as
480-466: A cure, but also a complete religious conversion. For a time he considered entering the Carthusians , and visited the charterhouses in southern Italy. Upon the news of his father's death in 1631, however, he returned to Paris. Once back in the capital, he refused a chaplaincy at the royal court, with its prospect of high honours. Instead he gathered the poor and the outcast on the streets for instruction in
560-535: A few young ecclesiastics around him for that purpose, Olier among them. The missions in which he employed them were meant to impress on their minds the religious needs of the country. A first attempt to found a seminary at Chartres failed. On 29 December 1641, Olier and two others, the Abbés de Foix and du Ferrier, formed a small community at Vaugirard , then a suburban village near Paris. Others soon joined them, and before long there were eight seminarians, who followed with
640-517: A new approach to priestly preparation, Olier gathered a few priests and seminarians around him in Vaugirard, a suburb of Paris, in the final months of 1641. Shortly thereafter, he moved his operation to the parish of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, hence the name of the new Society. After several adjustments, he built a seminary next to the current church of Saint-Sulpice. The Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice thereby became
720-593: A particular problem since although a cheap source of labour, their presence in a male religious community was problematic. The superior of the Séminaire de Montréal was inherently also the Island of Montreal's seigneur. In the case of M. Vachon de Belmont, who was responsible for the mission of La Montagne, sixth superior of the Montreal Sulpicians, the master designer of the fort and Sulpicians' residential château, and who
800-458: A reputation for forward-thinking at certain points of their history, to the suspicion and dissatisfaction of more conservative members of the hierarchy. They were on the cutting edge of Vatican II thinking and thus gained both friends and enemies. A constant in the Sulpician seminaries has been an emphasis on personal spiritual direction and on collegial governance. In 1989, U.S. Sulpicians began
880-591: A successor, the Abbé Emery, to abolish the limitation. Olier's influence was powerful with the Queen Regent , Anne of Austria , to whom he spoke with great plainness, yet with great respect, denouncing her prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin , as responsible for simoniacal and unworthy nominations to the episcopate. He persuaded the rich— royalty, nobles, and others— to a great generosity, without which his large works of charity would have been impossible. The foundation of
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#1733085926114960-540: A vessel to transfer him to the Sulpician enterprise in Montreal, which was quite successful and has endured down to the present day. In July 1791, four Sulpicians, newly arrived from France, established the first Catholic institution for the training of clergy in the newly formed United States: St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore . They were Francis Charles Nagot , Anthony Gamier, Michael Levadoux , and John Tessier, who had fled
1040-439: A worthy secular priesthood, through which alone, he felt, the revival of religion could come. The seminary was at first installed in the rectory of the parish, but very soon (1 October 1642) moved to a little house in the vicinity, de Foix being placed in charge by Olier. The beginnings were in great poverty, which lasted many years, for Olier would never allow any revenues from the parish to be expended except on parish needs. From
1120-650: Is crossed and bordered by the Lachine Canal and the Aqueduct Canal . Parc de La Vérendrye and Parc Saint-Paul offer recreation, and the Aqueduc and Lachine Canal bicycle paths are linked by a path through the Côte Saint-Paul industrial area east of the Décarie Expressway. Sulpician Order The Society of Priests of Saint-Sulpice ( French : Compagnie des Prêtres de Saint-Sulpice ; PSS ), also known as
1200-699: The French Revolution , twelve Sulpicians fled persecution by the National Convention and emigrated to Montreal , Quebec . According to Pierre-Auguste Fournet, the Sulpicians of Montreal would have died out had not the British Government opened Canada to the priests persecuted during the French Revolution. After lengthy negotiations, in 1840 the British Crown recognized the possessions of
1280-463: The Montreal Metro reached Côte-Saint-Paul with the construction of Jolicoeur metro station. In 2002, the area became part of the borough of Le Sud-Ouest. Today, the western limit of the neighbourhood Côte-Saint-Paul is not precisely defined, but it is somewhat expanded to the west of the official limit in its days as an independent town, with the building-up of the agricultural land since then and
1360-560: The Société Notre-Dame de Montréal , which organized the settlement of a new town called Ville-Marie (now Montreal ) in the colony of New France . Olier was born in Paris , but the family moved to Lyon , where his father had become a judge. There he was given a thorough education in the classics at the local Jesuit college (1617–25). He was encouraged to become a priest by Francis de Sales , who predicted his sanctity and great services to
1440-626: The Sulpicians , is a society of apostolic life of Pontifical Right for men, named after the Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris , where it was founded. The members of the Society add the nominal letters PSS after their names to indicate membership in the Congregation. Typically, priests become members of the Society of the Priests of St. Sulpice only after ordination and some years of pastoral work. The purpose of
1520-590: The catechism . At the Sorbonne their piety, it appears, had a very marked influence. After Father Olier described his model of a seminary to the Assembly of Clergy of France in 1651, bishops throughout the country asked the Sulpicians to oversee the operation of their seminaries. At this time, Mere Marie Alvequin , superior of the Dames Augustines de St. Magloire, petitioned Olier directly and through others to undertake
1600-551: The 18th century they attracted the sons of the nobility, as well as candidates from the common class, and produced a large number of the French bishops. The Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice was closed during the French Revolution, and its teachers and students scattered to avoid persecution. That Revolution also led to the secularization of the University of Paris . When France stabilized, theology courses were offered exclusively in seminaries, and
1680-776: The Abbés Ambrose Maréchal , Gabriel Richard and Francis Ciquard. 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
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#17330859261141760-848: The Bay of Quinte, north of Lake Ontario, the Mi'kmaq in Acadia, the Haudenosaunee on the present site of Ogdensburg in the State of New York and, finally, the Algonquins in Abitibi and Témiscamingue. François Dollier de Casson and Brehan de Gallinée explored the region of the Great Lakes (1669), of which they made a map. In 1676 the mission of La Montagne was opened on the site of the present Séminaire de Montréal, where M. Belmont built
1840-573: The Catholic Church. In preparation for this career, Olier first studied philosophy at the College of Harcourt in Paris, then scholastic theology and patristics at the College of Sorbonne . He preached during this period, by virtue of a benefice which his father had obtained for him. The young student became a man of great ambition; he also frequented fashionable society, which caused anxiety to those interested in his spiritual welfare. He lived in
1920-565: The Catholic faith, a practice which was at first derided but soon widely imitated. Under the guidance of Vincent de Paul , Olier assisted de Paul's missionaries, both in Paris and the rural countryside, while he prepared for Holy Orders , being ordained 21 May 1633. A disciple of Father Vincent de Paul and of Father Charles de Condren , Jean-Jacques Olier (1608-1657) took part in "missions" organized by them in France. The work Condren had most at heart
2000-496: The Catholic faith. Special instructions were provided for every class of persons, for the beggars, the poor, domestic servants, midwives, workingmen, the aged, etc. Instructions and debates on Catholic doctrine were organized for the benefit of Calvinists , hundreds of whom were converted. A vigorous campaign was waged against immoral and heretical literature and obscene pictures. Pamphlets, holy pictures and prayer books were distributed to those who could or would not come to church, and
2080-514: The Cultural Heritage Act of Quebec. Sulpicians set foot in what is now the United States as early as 1670 when Fathers Dollier de Casson and Brehan de Galinee from Brittany landed in what would later become Detroit , Michigan . In 1684 Robert de la Salle headed an ill-fated expedition from France to what is now Texas, taking with him three priests, all Sulpicians. These were Fathers Dollier de Casson, Brehan de Galinee, and Jean Cavelier,
2160-720: The French Revolution. Purchasing the One Mile Tavern then on the edge of the city, they dedicated the house to the Blessed Virgin . In October they opened classes with five students whom they had brought from France, and thereby established the first enduring community of the Society in the nation. In March, 1792 three more priests arrived, Abbé Chicoisneau, Abbé John Baptist Mary David , and Abbé Benedict Joseph Flaget . Two seminarians arrived with them, Stephen T. Badin and another named Barret. They were joined in June of that same year by
2240-522: The Parish of St. Sulpice. His aims were to reform the parish, establish a seminary, and Christianize the Sorbonne, then very secular in its instruction. This was to be achieved through the example set by the seminarians who attended its courses. The parish covered all of the Faubourg Saint-Germain-des-Prés , with a population as numerous and varied as a large city. It was commonly described as
2320-592: The Saint-Sulpice Seminary. The administration of the Séminaire de Montreal was modeled on that of the Séminaire de Paris, in which the company was run by the superior, the four-man Consulting Council, and the Assembly of Twelve Assistants. According to the rules of the seminary in 1764, the superior, during his five-year renewable term, was to act like a father and was to be respected. The seminary kept careful records of all employees including birthday, place of birth, marital status, and salary. Female employees posed
2400-608: The Seminaire de Saint-Sulpice. Just as in Paris, the Montreal Sulpicians had important civil responsibilities. Most notably, they acted as seigneurs for the island of Montreal. The Sulpicians served as missionaries, judges, explorers, schoolteachers, social workers, supervisors of convents, almsmen, canal builders, urban planners, colonization agents, and entrepreneurs. Despite their large role in society and their influence in shaping early Montreal, each night they would all return to
2480-458: The Society of St. Sulpice of Montreal created Univers culturel de Saint-Sulpice, a non-profit organization whose mission is to ensure the preservation, accessibility and outreach of the archives, movable heritage assets and old and rare books of their community. The rare book collections situated at the Grand Séminaire de Montréal Library (now Institut de formation théologique de Montréal), and
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2560-558: The Sulpicians moved the Sault-au-Récollet mission to two villages on seigneurie Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes territory; a first village to the west, which was their former hunting grounds and came to be called Kanesatake , was assigned to the Mohawks, and, later, a village to the east was assigned to the Algonquins and the Nipissings. On April 29, 1764, the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice de Paris executed an act of donation giving all Canadian property to
2640-402: The Sulpicians resumed their educational mission. Sulpician seminaries earned and maintained reputations for solid academic teaching and high moral tone. The Society spread from France to Canada, the United States and to several other foreign countries, including eventually to Vietnam and French Africa, where French Sulpician seminaries are found even today. The Sulpicians played a major role in
2720-480: The Sulpicians, the status of which had been ambiguous since the Conquest, while also providing for the gradual termination of the seigneurial regime. This enabled the Sulpicians to keep their holdings and continue their work, while allowing landowners who so desired to make a single final payment ( commutation ) and be relieved of all future seigneurial dues. Inauguration in 1825 of the Lachine Canal opened up markets to
2800-584: The Séminaire Saint-Sulpice located in Old Montreal, host different collections from different institutions Sulpicians created from the 17th century to the 20th century (Séminaire Saint-Sulpice, Collège de Montréal, Grand Séminaire de Montréal, Séminaire de Philosophie, Collège pontifical canadien de Rome, and Collège André Grasset). These books span from the late Middle Ages to the mid 20th century. The works in these libraries were used for teaching and for
2880-705: The Séminaire de Montréal making possible the survival of the Sulpicians to become British subjects, loyal to the Crown. In the wake of the Conquest of 1760 , the Séminaire de Montreal thus became independent from the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice de Paris. By contrast, since 1763, other male-affiliated religious orders deemed to be too dependent on France and Rome, that is, the Récollets and Jésuit orders, were prevented from recruiting members and these religious orders properties were confiscated to become British Crown property. In 1794 after
2960-480: The United States' interior via the Erie Canal (opened in 1822), which in turn provided the impetus for the rapid sudden development of North America's largest industrial park in the area known as Pointe-Saint-Charles , named after Charles le Moyne . A large part of Pointe-Saint-Charles was occupied by the Sulpicians' Saint-Gabriel Farm established in 1659 and named after the first superior, Gabriel de Queylus . At
3040-455: The United States, the Oblate Sisters of Providence . The Society helped to found and staff for a time St. John's Seminary , part of the Archdiocese of Boston (1884–1911). In that same period, for a brief time they also staffed St. Joseph Seminary , serving the Archdiocese of New York (1896–1906). The Sulpicians who staffed that institution chose to leave the Society and become part of
3120-461: The United States. The Society of Priests of Saint Sulpice was founded in France in 1641 by Father Jean-Jacques Olier (1608–1657), an exemplar of the French School of Spirituality . A disciple of Vincent de Paul and Charles de Condren , Olier took part in "missions" organized by them. The French priesthood at that time suffered from low morale, academic deficits and other problems. Envisioning
3200-502: The Vatican did not proceed with the cause. Vincent de Paul regarded Olier as a saint. Writing to Mademoiselle d' Aubrai on 26 July 1660, just two months before his own death, Vincent de Paul stated that he had "asked God for great graces through the intercession of M. Olier." Church historian, Frederick William Faber , in his Growth in Holiness (Baltimore ed., p. 376) says of him: "Of all
3280-627: The archdiocese. Among their number was Francis Gigot . In 1898, at the invitation of the Archbishop of San Francisco , Patrick William Riordan , the Sulpicians founded what was, until 2017, their primary institution on the West Coast, Saint Patrick 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
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3360-524: The area in 1825; Lac à la Loutre was dried out. Chemin de la Rivière-Saint-Pierre (now avenue de l'Église) was built to join Chemin de la Côte-des-Argoulets (Boulevard LaSalle) with the Chemin de la Côte-Saint-Paul (Rue Saint-Patrick). With the canal providing water power for factories, workers started to move in nearby, forming the nucleus of the community in the triangle bounded by the Lachine Canal, Rue Angers, and Avenue de l'Église. The village of Côte-Saint-Paul
3440-581: The colonists. The Jesuits served as missionaries for the small colony until 1657 when Olier sent four priests from the Saint-Sulpice seminary in Paris to form the first parish. In 1663, France decided to substitute direct royal administration over New France for that hitherto exercised by the Company of One Hundred Associates, and in the same year the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal ceded its possessions to
3520-412: The company as long as they were priests and had permission from their bishop. The Sulpicians would thus recruit wealthy individuals since Sulpicians did not take vows of poverty. They retained ownership of individual property and were free to dispose their wealth. The Sulpicians soon came to be known for the revival of the parish life, reform of seminary life, and the revitalization of spirituality. In
3600-603: The control of the seigneury of much of the colony. Olier suffered a stroke in February 1652. He resigned his pastorate into the hands of Abbé de Bretonvilliers and, when he regained sufficient strength, on the orders of his physicians he visited various spas of Europe in search of health, as well as making many pilgrimages. On his return to Paris, his old energy and enthusiasm reasserted themselves, especially in his warfare against Jansenism . A second stroke at Saint-Péray , in September 1653, left him completely paralysed. Olier
3680-471: The country. The first was at Nantes in 1648. It was not Olier's intention to establish a congregation to conduct seminaries, but merely to lend priests for the foundation of a seminary to any bishop and to recall them after their work was well established. The repeated requests of bishops, considered by him as indications of God's will, caused him to modify his plan, and to accept a few seminaries permanently. The society which formed around Olier at St. Sulpice
3760-455: The day, but at night they would return to their institutions. Jean-Jacques Olier attempted to control diverse social groups by having laymen of the community give reports on family life, poverty, and disorder. The Sulpicians were very strict in regards to women and sexuality to the extent that they were eventually banned from the seminary unless it was for short visits in the external area with appropriate attire. The Sulpicians accepted aspirants to
3840-550: The destruction of the town's centre. The neighbourhood is bordered to the south by Desmarchais Boulevard, to the west by Monk Boulevard, to east by the aqueduct, and to the north by the Lachine Canal and the railroad track bordering Pointe-Saint-Charles . Côte-Saint-Paul can be accessed by the De La Vérendrye exit on Quebec Autoroute 15 . The neighbourhood is served by the Jolicoeur Montreal Metro station. It
3920-493: The enrichment of knowledge on various subjects, allowing the Sulpicians to fulfill their mission as educators. These collections are an expression of scholarly culture. They provide information on the social and intellectual concerns of Québec's elites, on the evolution of ideas in many fields between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, and on the value of the education provided at the time. In 2021, these collections (including archives and moveable heritage assets) were added to
4000-555: The explorer's older brother. This expedition ended in failure, and the vessel carrying the three Sulpicians was shipwrecked in what is now the state of Texas. Among the survivors were the three Sulpicians, two of whom returned to France on the next available vessel. The third, Dollier de Casson, decided to remain to catechize the natives. This, after all, was a major motive for his coming. He met with little success in this endeavor, however, and finally decided to return to France as had his companions. His missionary zeal unslaked, he soon found
4080-415: The first Sulpician seminary. There the first seminarians got their spiritual formation, while taking most theology courses at the Sorbonne. The spirit of this new seminary and its founder caught the attention of many leaders in the French Church; and before long, members of the new Society staffed a number of new seminaries elsewhere in the country. Sulpician priests contributed to the parish community during
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#17330859261144160-459: The founding of the Canadian city of Montreal , where they engaged in missionary activities, trained priests and constructed the Saint-Sulpice Seminary . The Société Notre-Dame de Montréal , of which Jean-Jacques Olier was an active founder, was granted the land of Montreal from the Company of One Hundred Associates , which owned New France, with the aim of converting the indigenous population and providing schools and hospitals for both them and
4240-441: The grand manner of the day, having two carriages and many servants. His success in defending theses in Latin and Greek led him to go to Rome for the purpose of learning Hebrew so as to gain greater notice by being able to defend his theses in that language at the Sorbonne. When his eyesight began to fail, Olier made a pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Holy House in Loreto, Italy , where his official biographies attest not only to
4320-410: The largest and most fashionable parish in the city. There Olier trained his priests in community life. The parish name came to be identified with the society he founded. Of special attention were the poor, the uninstructed, and those in irregular marital unions. Thirteen catechetical centres were established, for the instruction not only of children but of many adults who were almost equally ignorant of
4400-450: The more remarkable as Olier was partially paralyzed at that time. Olier's last years were full of intense suffering, both bodily and mental, which he bore with the utmost sweetness and resignation. His visions and his mysticism caused the Jansenists to ridicule him as a visionary; but they, as well as others, acknowledged his sanctity. His numerous ascetical writings show him a profound master of spiritual doctrine. His friend Vincent de Paul
4480-413: The number of priest members as of 31 December 2010. The following is a chronological list of superiors general of the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice: Source: https://sulpc.org/devenir-formateur/ Jean-Jacques Olier Jean-Jacques Olier , S.S. (20 September 1608 – 2 April 1657) was a French Catholic priest and the founder of the Sulpicians . He also helped to establish
4560-399: The parish, of whom the most illustrious, a little after Olier's time, was the Abbé Fénelon , later Archbishop of Cambrai . This was one of the best effects of Olier's work, for it sent trained, enlightened, zealous priests into all parts of France, and later beyond. Orphans, very numerous during the war, were placed in good parishes, and a house of refuge established for orphan girls. A home
4640-423: The pastor did not seek a remedy. Olier led the movement against duelling, formed a society for its suppression, and enlisted the active aid of military men of renown, including the marshals of France and some famous duellists. He converted many of noble and royal blood, both men and women. He worked to overcome the common idea that Christian perfection was only for priests and religious orders, and inspired many to
4720-499: The period of the Fronde (1648-1653), the civil war which reduced Paris to widespread misery and famine, Olier supported hundreds of families and provided many with clothing and shelter. None were refused. The poor were cared for according to methods of relief inspired by the practical genius of Vincent de Paul. His rules of relief, adapted in other parishes, became the accepted methods and are still followed at St. Sulpice. At times, as many as 60 to 80 priests were ministering together in
4800-412: The poor in a religious way of life came to found the first American congregation of Sisters in 1809. The Sulpicians served as their religious superiors until 1850, when the original community located there chose to merge with another religious institute of Sisters. In 1829, Sulpician Fr. James Joubert worked with Mary Lange , a Haitian immigrant, to establish the first community of black sisters in
4880-424: The practices of a devout life, including daily meditation, spiritual reading and other exercises of piety, and to a more exact fulfillment of their duties, whether at the court, in business or at home. The second great work of Olier was the establishment of the seminary of St. Sulpice. By his parish, which he intended to serve as a model to the parochial clergy, as well as by his seminary, he hoped to help give France
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#17330859261144960-436: The present Church of St. Sulpice was laid by him. Olier was always the missionary, with a global outlook. His zeal led to his helping in the foundation of the Society of Our Lady of Montreal . The society organized the establishment of the colony of Fort Ville-Marie in New France, the nucleus of the modern city of Montreal . The Sulpicians undertook their first overseas mission at the colony in 1657, and eventually were given
5040-413: The present day . 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 Bogotá , 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. In 2006,
5120-408: The president of Georgetown University . Later he became the first bishop of the Louisiana Territory . A decade later, Dubourg was instrumental in the transfer from New York City of the widow and recent convert Elizabeth Seton , who had been unsuccessful in her efforts to run a school, in part to care for her family. With his encouragement, she and other women drawn to the vision of caring for
5200-508: The priests the same rule of life and were instructed in theology, with Olier teaching Scripture . The pastor of Vaugirard took advantage of the presence of the priests in his parish to take an extended vacation, during which time they reformed his parish. Impressed by the reports of this reform, the curé of the Church of St. Sulpice in Paris , who had become discouraged by the deplorable state of his parish, offered it in exchange for some of Olier's benefices. In August 1641, Olier took charge of
5280-401: The remaining agricultural lands were converted to housing. However, like the rest of the Lachine Canal area, the neighbourhood went into decline with the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway . The construction of the Décarie Expressway and the Turcot Interchange in 1964 tore through the heart of old Saint-Paul, though it spared the institutional buildings along Avenue de l'Église. In 1978,
5360-415: The request of Bishop Ignace Bourget , in 1840 the Sulpicians took over the diocesan school of theology, creating the famous Grand Séminaire de Montréal . Since 1857 it has been located on Sherbrooke Street near Atwater Avenue. This operation enabled the Montreal Sulpicians to expand their primary work, the education of priests. They have trained innumerable priests and bishops, Canadian and American, down to
5440-406: The responsibility of spiritual director of the monastery, but Olier preferred to focus his attentions on the parish and seminary of St. Sulpice. The rules of Olier's seminary, approved by the General Assembly of the Clergy in 1651, were adopted in many new establishments. Within a few years, Olier, at the urgent request of the bishops, sent priests to found seminaries in several dioceses throughout
5520-432: 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 priests, Sulpicians place great emphasis on the academic and spiritual formation of their own members, who commit themselves to undergoing lifelong development in these areas. The Society is divided into three provinces, operating in various countries: the Province of France, Canada, and
5600-464: The start he designed to make it a national seminary and regarded as providential the fact that the Parish of St. Sulpice, and thus the seminary, depended directly on the Holy See . Within two years, students had come to the seminary from about twenty dioceses of France. Some attended the courses at the Sorbonne, others followed those given in the seminary itself. His seminarians were initiated into parochial work, being employed very fruitfully in teaching
5680-417: The uncanonized servants of God whose lives I have read, he most resembles a canonized Saint." "When we look to the legacy of Jean-Jacques Olier," Donald Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington and Chancellor of The Catholic University of America, has said, "we can find three enduring elements: the priests of the Society of St. Sulpice, the structure of seminary formation and the outline of the spirituality for
5760-425: The work of Jean-Baptiste de la Salle , a former pupil of St. Sulpice. Free legal aid was provided for the poor. He also gathered under one roof the nuns from many different communities and Orders who had been driven out of their monasteries in the countryside and had fled to Paris for refuge. He cared for them till the close of the war. In the end, there was no misery among the people, spiritual or corporal, for which
5840-413: Was an influential author. Besides letters, which reveal his strength as spiritual director, he wrote four books intended for his parishioners: La journee chretienne (1655), a Catechisme chretien (1656), L'Introduction a la vie et aux vertus chretiennes (1657), and L'Explication des ceremonies de la grande messe de paroisse (1657). These books, written in the years immediately before his death, are all
5920-582: Was bounded by the Lachine Canal, the Grand Trunk Railway, the north bank of the Aqueduct Canal, the property line behind the lots on the west side of Frontenac Street (now Rue Leprohon), a property line just north of Rielle Street (now Rue Laurendeau), First Avenue (now Rue le Caron), and St. Louis Street (now Rue Briand). In 1910, Saint-Paul merged into the city of Montreal at the same time as neighbouring Ville-Émard. Industrial development continued and
6000-460: Was founded in 1874. The first Église Saint-Paul was built in 1875, and a town hall and railway station soon followed. The western part of the village separated in 1878, forming the Parish Municipality of Côte-Saint-Paul, later Ville-Émard . The balance of the village of Côte-Saint-Paul became a town in 1894 and was renamed Saint-Paul in 1897. Clockwise from the north, the town of Saint-Paul
6080-418: Was independently wealthy, was very well educated and had trained as draughtsman and architect, M. Belmont had a more than passing interest in military strategy and architecture. M. Belmont's military strategy stamp is also evident in the implementation of the Sault-au-Récollet's fr:Fort Lorette and the seigneurie Lac-de-Deux-Montagnes' fort. In 1668, several Sulpicians went to evangelize the Haudenosaunee in
6160-470: Was not formed into a religious institute , but instead continued as a community of secular priests , following a common life but bound by no special religious vows . The aim of the society was to live perfectly the life of a secular priest. Olier wished it to remain a small company, decreeing that it should never consist of more than seventy-two members, besides the superior and his twelve assistants. This regulation remained in force until circumstances induced
6240-441: Was open to shelter and reform the many women rescued from prostitution, and another for young girls exposed to that danger. Many free schools for poor girls were founded by Olier, and he laboured also at the reform of the teachers in boys' schools, not, however, with great success. Olier perceived that the reform of boys' schools could be accomplished only through a religious community; which in fact came about after his death through
6320-613: Was the foundation of seminaries after the Counter-Reformation model mandated by the Council of Trent . The Catholic Church felt that its success in its own renewal lay in the thorough and systematic formation of the clergy through their education in these schools. The attempts in France to carry out the designs of the Council having failed, Condren, unable to succeed through the Oratory, gathered
6400-549: Was with him at his death. Olier was buried in the Church of St. Sulpice. When the interior of the church was destroyed during the French Revolution , his remains were lost. Only his heart, removed per the customs of the day, is preserved in the Sulpician seminary in Issy-les-Moulineaux . He is the author of mystical writings. Diocesan attempts to canonize Olier were introduced in Paris and Montreal between 1865 and 1867, but
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