Places of Frederic Ozanam 20 – Église Saint-Sulpice

Église Saint-Sulpice

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The Church of Saint-Sulpice was a familiar place in the life of Ozanam, for different reasons:

In the earliest days of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, two conferences, one at Saint-Sulpice and the other at Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, were created in Paris. The name “conference” was retained for each of these sections, located at parishes, but they were grouped together and known as the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. A general meeting held at least once each month helped to maintain unity.
Young Frédéric Ozanam and his friends often took lunch in a small restaurant located near the church of Saint-Sulpice.
Frederic sometimes attended Mass st Saint-Sulpice and he once gave a beautiful testimony about the subtle but real presence of God in the world and in individual lives, in an address at Saint-Sulpice to a workmen’s society. “…Thus, friends, let us work on this earth, docile and submissive to the will of God without knowing what He is accomplishing through us. But He, the divine Artist, sees and knows…”
Ozanam’s daughter Marie was baptized in the church of Saint-Sulpice on Saturday, July 26, 1845.
When Ozanam died in 1853, his body was brought to Paris, where a full requiem Mass was offered at the Church of Saint-Sulpice on September 15, 1853. The coffin remained at Saint-Sulpice until his wife Amélie found a suitable location for interment.

Source: Antoine Frédéric Ozanam by Raymond L. Sickinger, University of Notre Dame Press