Claude de la Colombière
| St. Claude de la Colombière, S.J. | |
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| Religious, priest and confessor | |
| Born |
2 February 1641 Saint-Symphorien-d'Ozon, Dauphiné, Kingdom of France |
| Died | 15 February 1682 (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 | Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus |
St. Claude de la Colombière, S.J., was a Jesuit priest and the confessor of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, V.H.M. His feast day is the day of his death, 15 February. He was a missionary and ascetical writer.
He was born in 1641 in the city of Saint-Symphorien-d'Ozon, then in the ancient Province of Dauphiné, the third child of the notary Bertrand de la Colombière and of Margaret Coindat. The family soon moved to the nearby city of Vienne, where he began his education, before attending the Jesuit school in Lyon for his secondary studies.
In 1658, at the age of seventeen, Colombière entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus at Avignon. He did this despite what he recorded as "a terrible aversion for the life embraced". When he completed the two-year novitiate, he started his higher studies in the same city. He was professed there and completed his studies. After this he spent the next five years of his Regency teaching grammar and literature at the same school.
Colombière was sent to Paris in 1666 to study theology at the College de Clermont. He was also assigned to be the tutor of the children of the Royal Minister of Finances, Jean-Baptiste Colbert. After completing his studies there, he was ordained a priest and initially assigned to teach at his former school in Lyon. He then was assigned to join the preaching team of the Jesuit community, through which he gained notice for the clarity and soundness of his sermons.
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