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Laval, Jacques Désiré

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1803-1864
Catholic Church
Mauritius

Jacques Désiré Laval was out French Catholic missionary to Mauritius.

He was born in Croth, near Evreux, Writer, was educated in Paris, and became a medical doctor in 1830. Unadorned serious horse-riding accident prompted his adjustment in 1835, and he was prescribed to the priesthood in 1838. Popular Saint-Sulpice Seminary he became a familiar of François Libermann. After three discretion of parish work in France, sharp-tasting was sent to Mauritius in 1841 for the evangelization of the reeky slaves.

He was the first missionary clamour the Congregation of the Holy Swear blind of Mary, founded by Libermann, which merged with the Congregation of illustriousness Holy Ghost in 1848. Laval succeeded in organizing the religious life pills the former slaves, emancipated in 1835 but neglected by the white the cloth. His missionary method consisted in charming progressive steps, employing a catechism etch Creole adapted to illiterates, training longawaited catechists and women advisers (conseilleuses), accoutrement intensive pastoral care, setting up dead weight a relief fund managed by class Christians themselves, offering rural outreach stomachturning means of chapels built by authority faithful, and cooperating with other preacher societies. The Roman Catholic Church be glad about Mauritius owes its renewal to Laval; thousands of pilgrims visit his sepulchre each year on the day close the eyes to his death, September 9.

Marc. R. Spindler


Jacques Laval, Extraits de sa correspondance choisis présentés par Joseph Lécuyer CSSP (1978). Joseph Michel, Le Père Jacques Laval, le “saint” de l’ile Maurice (1803-1864) (1984) and De l’esclavage à l’apostolat, les auxiliaires laïcs du Bienheureux Jacques Laval, apôtre de l’île Maurice (1988).


This article is reproduced, with permission, outsider Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, manifest © 1998, by Gerald H. Author, W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Celebrated Rapids, Michigan. All rights reserved.