Name Jean-Baptiste Muard | ||
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Died 1854, Saint-Leger-Vauban, France | ||
Jean-Baptiste Muard (Vireaux, 1809-Pierre-Qui-Vire, 1854) was a French Benedictine, reformer, and founder of religious orders.
Biography
Ordained in 1834, he was parish priest of Joux-la-Ville and then St. Martin d'Avallon before becoming a monk.
He founded the French province of the Cassinese Congregation of the Primitive Observance and the Society of Saint Edmund in 1843. In 1850, Jean-Baptiste Muard founded the monastery of Sainte Marie de la Pierre-qui-Vire, in the Morvan.
References
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