Jean Baptiste Muard

Jean-Baptiste Muard (Vireaux, 1809-Pierre-Qui-Vire, 1854) was a French Benedictine, reformer, and founder of religious orders.

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.

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