The Life of Father de Ravignan
Subtitle: Translated at St. Beuno's College, North Wales
Publisher: Dublin: Kelly; London: Simpkin, Marshall; London: Burns & Oates
Published: 1869
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: AT HOME AND AT SCHOOL.; title: GUSTAVE XAVIER DE RAVIGNAN, A CHILD IN BAYONNE, A STUDENT IN PARIS — HIS FIRST COMMUNION — HIS FATHER'S DEATH, 1; title: CHAPTER II.; title: THE SOLDIER AND THE MAGISTRATE.; title: GUSTAVE DE RAVIGNAN, LIEUTENANT OF CAVALRY, COUNSELLOR OF THE ROYAL COURT OF PARIS, DEPUTY PROCUREUR DU ROI — VOCATION — MYSTERIOUS DEPARTURE, 18; title: CHAPTER III.; title: RETIREMENT AT ISSY.; title: GUSTAVE DE RAVIGNAN MAKES KNOWN HIS ENTRY AT THE SEMINARY — RECEIVES THE TONSURE — FIRST THOUGHTS OF MONTROUGE — HE RENOUNCES HIS PROPERTY, 42; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: NOVICIATE AT MONTROUGE.; title: ARRIVAL OF THE ABBE DE RAVIGNAN AT MONTROUGE — ENTRY ON RELIGIOUS LIFE — HIS FIRST SERMONS, HIS VOWS, 60; title: CHAPTER V.; title: SCHOLASTICATE.; title: BR. DE RAVIGNAN BEGINS HIS THEOLOGICAL STUDIES AT PARIS — COMPLETES THEM AT D$LE — IS RAISED TO THE PRIESTHOOD — ORDINANCES OF JUNE 16, 1828, 81; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: PERIOD OF TEACHING.; title: F. DE RAVIGNAN TEACHES THEOLOGY — HIS PERIL DURING THE ATTACK ON SAINT- ACHEUL IN 1830 — EXILE IN SWITZERLAND — RETREATS FOR THE CLERGY, 91; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: THE THIRD YEAR OF PROBATION.; title: F. DE RAVIGNAN IN THE SCHOOL OF THE EXERCISES — RURAL MISSIONS — HIS THOUGHTS ON ENTERING PUBLIC LIFE, 108; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: VARIOUS WORKS.; title: F. DE RAVIGNAN MINISTER AT SAINT- ACHEUL — SUPERIOR AT BORDEAUX — HIS EARLIEST STATIONS — HIS GOVERNMENT, 119; title: CHAPTER IX.; title: CONFERENCES AT NOTRE-DAME.; title: F. DE RAVIGNAN'S PLAN — HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH F. ROOTHAAN — HIS RETREATS — THE STYLE OF HIS ELOQUENCE, 134; title: CHAPTER X.; title: ADVENT STATIONS AND DETACHED SERMONS.; title: F. DE RAVIGNAN TAKES HIS LAST VOWS AT LYONS — PILGRIMAGE TO LOYOLA — MISSION TO ROME — FUNERAL SERMON ON MGR. DE QU^LEN — DISCOURSE IN PRESENCE OF QUEEN MARIE- AMALIE — CONVERSIONS OF RUSSIAN SCHISMATICS, 167; title: CHAPTER XI.; title: THE PERSECUTION IN 1843 AND 1844.; title: PUBLIC OPINION DIRECTED AGAINST THE JESUITS — M. GUIZOT SENDS FOR F. DE RAVIGNAN — CHARGE AGAINST HIM AT ROME — ENDEAVOUR TO SEPARATE HIS CAUSE FROM THAT OF HIS BRETHREN — PUBLICATION OF HIS DEFENCE OF THE SOCIETY. 187; title: CHAPTER XII.; title: PERSECUTION CONTINUED IN 1845.; title: F. DE RAVIGNAN CONVEYS TO THE CHAMPIONS OF THE SOCIETY THE THANKS OF F. GENERAL — HE VISITS VALS AND THE TOMB OF ST. FRANCIS REGIS — HE ATTENDS THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES ON THE 2D AND 3D OF MAY — PLAN OF LEGAL RESISTANCE — M. ROSSI : HIS NEGOTIATIONS AT ROME — LETTER OF F. DE RAVIGNAN TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS — JUBILEE AT LIEGE, 214; title: CHAPTER XIII.; title: ILLNESS OF 1846.; title: F. DE RAVIGNAN FINDS PLEASURE IN SICKNESS — TEACHES SACRED ELOQUENCE AT VALS — CORRESPONDENCE WITH M. MOLlS — HIS RESIGNATION TO THE WILL OF HIS SUPERIORS — REVISION OF THE TOULOUSE CONFERENCES — HE SPENDS A SEASON AT EAUX-BONNES — NOTRE-DAME DE FRANCE — HE TRAVELS IN ITALY — DEVOTEDNESS OF MME. DE LA FERRONNAYS — HE RETURNS TO PARIS, 256; title: CHAPTER XIV.; title: RESIDENCE IN THE RUE DE SEVRES.; title: REVOLUTION OF 1848 — M. DE CHATEAUBRIAND ON HIS DEATHBED RETRACTS PARTS OF HIS WRITINGS — F. DE RAVIGNAN RECOVERS HIS HEALTH AT BlfeVRE — THE GENERAL OF THE SOCIETY VISITS PARIS — F. DE RAVIGNAN SUPERIOR OF THE HOUSE IN THE RUE DE SEVRES, 301; title: CHAPTER XV.; title: MISCELLANEOUS DISCOURSES.; title: F. DE RAVIGNAN REAPPEARS IN THE PULPIT — HOMILIES ON THE PASSION AT ST. THOMAS OF AQUIN — LAST TWO RETREATS AT NOTRE-DAME — MISSION TO LONDON — CONNECTION WITH THE CATHOLICS OF ENGLAND, 325; title: CHAPTER XVI.; title: CONVERSIONS.; title: GENERAL DONNADIEU — M. ROYER-COLLARD, PROFESSOR IN THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — PRINCE PAUL OF WIRTEMBERG — BARON WALCKENAER — M. DU CAMPER, THE NAVAL OFFICER — GENERAL THE DUKE DE BELLUNE — THE DUKE DE GRAMONT — TWO ACTRESSES, 341; title: CHAPTER XVII.; title: CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF MARY.; title: ORIGIN OF THE ASSOCIATION — MEETINGS AT THE HOUSE OF MME. DE SWETCHINE — DIRECTION OF THE CHILDREN OF MARY ENTRUSTED TO F. DE RAVIGNAN BY THE BISHOP OF ORLEANS — RETREATS IN THE RUE DE VARENNES — MARSHAL DE SAINT-ARNAUD AND M. DE SALVANDY ATTEND SECRETLY — DEATH OF MME. SOSTHENE DE LAROCHEFOUCAULD, 363; title: CHAPTER XVIII.; title: THE DIRECTION OF SOULS.; title: F. DE RAVIGNAN'S VIEWS OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE: THEY ARE LOFTY, PRACTICAL, AND SOLID — HIS ZEAL THAT SOULS SHOULD MAKE ADVANCEMENT — CHARACTER OF HIS DIRECTION — A RELIGIOUS VOCATION SANCTIONED BY HEAVEN, 380; title: CHAPTER XIX.; title: INTERCOURSE WITH VARIOUS PERSONS.; title: GENERAL VIEW OF THE AMOUNT AND NATURE OF THE CORRESPONDENCE KEPT UP BY F. DE RAVIGNAN, AND OF THE VISITS PAID OR RECEIVED BY HIM — HIS OWN ROOM AND THE PARLOUR, 407; title: CHAPTER XX.; title: HIS SHARE IN RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS.; title: F. DE RAVIGNAN AVOWS HIS SYMPATHY WITH A PERSECUTED CHURCH — HE DEFENDS THE DOCTRINE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION : ASSISTS IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE ORATORY — BEGINNINGS OF THE MONASTERY OF THE PIERRE-QUI-VIRE — MEMORIAL IN FAVOUR OF FREEDOM FOR THE MISSIONS TO THE ALGERINE ARABS — DISCUSSION ON THE LAW FOR FREEDOM OF INSTRUCTION : THE LAW CARRIED INTO EXECUTION — THE COLLEGES AT METZ AND SAINT-ETIENNE — F. DE RAVIGNAN HAS AN AUDIENCE WITH THE EMPEROR, 434; title: CHAPTER XXI.; title: SICKNESS IN 1852.; title: ANXIETY AND ALARM OF THE PHYSICIANS — SELF-DEVOTION OF SCEUR ROSALIE — DR R^CAMIER'S COURSE OF TREATMENT — F. DE RAVIGNAN CONVALESCENT AT VERSAILLES — DEATH OF MARSHAL EXELMANS — SPIRITUAL EXERCISES FOLLOWED BY INTERNAL TRIALS — JOURNEY TO ANGERS — RETURN TO PARIS AND SUDDEN RECOVERY, 462; title: CHAPTER XXII.; title: DEATH OF F. ROOTHAAN.; title: F. ROOTHAAN RECOMMENDS F. DE RAVIGNAN TO WRITE HIS APOLOGY FOR CLEMENT XIII. AND CLEMENT XIV. — HIS DEATH — F. DE RAVIGNAN GOES TO ROME FOR THE ELECTION OF HIS SUCCESSOR, 484; title: CHAPTER XXIII.; title: APOSTOLATE TO GREAT AND POOR.; title: THE VICTORIOUS COMMANDER AT THE ALMA BECOMES A PENITENT OF F. DE RAVIGNAN, AND DIES A CHRISTIAN DEATH — F. DE RAVIGNAN PREACHES THE LENT AT THE TUILERIES, AND AT THE HOUSE OF THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR, 512; title: CHAPTER XXIV.; title: DEALINGS WITH PROTESTANTS.; title: METHOD FOLLOWED BY F. DE RAVIGNAN IN INSTRUCTING AND CONVERTING PROTESTANTS — HIS CHARITY, PRUDENT FORBEARANCE, VIGOUR IN OPPOSING DIFFICULTIES — VARIOUS EXAMPLES, 531; title: CHAPTER XXV.; title: RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES.; title: THE SACRED HEART — THE VISITATION — THE CARMELITES, 547; title: CHAPTER XXVI.; title: HIS INTERIOR LIFE.; title: SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLES — DOMINANT THOUGHTS — HIS TENDENCIES, THE ROADS HE WALKED, HIS TRIALS, 561; title: CHAPTER XXVII.; title: GENERAL SKETCH OF F. DE RAVIGNAN.; title: ACCOUNT OF HIS PORTRAIT : HIS FEATURES, BEARING, LANGUAGE, AND HABITS — HIS CHARACTER : MODEST, VIGOROUS, AND AFFECTIONATE — DEATHS OF SOME OF HIS FRIENDS, 595; title: CHAPTER XXVIII.; title: LAST SICKNESS. — SAINT-ACHEUL.; title: F. DE RAVIGNAN'S JOY AT LEAVING PARIS — HIS FOREBODINGS — COMMENCEMENT AND FIRST STAGE OF HIS SICKNESS — THE INFIRMARY IN THE NOVICIATE — DECEITFUL RECOVERY AND RETURN TO PARIS — RETREAT GIVEN TO THE CARMELITES IN THE RUE DE MESSINE, 616; title: CHAPTER XXIX.; title: HIS DEATH.; title: F. DE RAVIGNAN IS TAKEN ILL IN HIS CONFESSIONAL IN PARIS — PASSES HIS LAST DAYS IN SOLITUDE — JOURNAL OF HIS SICKNESS — HIS LAST LETTERS — VISITS PAID TO HIM — THE LAST SACRAMENTS — HIS AGONY, 637; title: CHAPTER XXX.; title: HIS FUNERAL.; title: THE BODY IS PUBLICLY EXPOSED DURING THREE DAYS — EXTRAORDINARY GATHERING OF VISITORS — THE SIMPLE BUT GRAND PROCESSION — FUNERAL SERVICE AT SAINT-SULPICE — DISCOURSE BY THE BISHOP OF ORLEANS — THE CEMETERY OF MONT-PARNASSE, 673