God raised up Blessed Frederic, setting him ablaze with the spirit of His love, to encourage groups of lay people in the service of the poor. You should know him.

He was a professor who upheld and communicated the faith through teaching cultural subjects. He also took up journalism and founded a newspaper. He received the degree of doctor of law and was a leading historical and literary critic in the neo-Catholic movement in France during the first half of the 19th century. He was a married man, an excellent father, and he made his family into a small church. His short life was extremely busy with his professorial duties, his extensive literary activities, and the work of district-visiting as a member of the society of St. Vincent de Paul. His political writings in support of the Catholic Church and his work with the poor in the urban slums of Paris are still very relevant and inspiring to us today, almost 200 years later. His writings pre-dated and formed much of the groundwork for the Catholic Social thought of the modern era.

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