On Christmas Eve in 1842, Frederic and his wife Amélie attended midnight Mass at the Abbey-au-Bois, located on the rue de Sèvres.

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Ozanam’s visits to those in poverty made him painfully aware of the large number of people leading a life of degradation. He wrote from his experience in the 12th Arrondissement.
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On Christmas Eve in 1842, Frederic and his wife Amélie attended midnight Mass at the Abbey-au-Bois, located on the rue de Sèvres.
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The Church of Saint-Sulpice was a familiar place in the life of Ozanam, for various reasons.
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After Ozanam’s wife experienced her first miscarriage, Ozanam took refuge in the St. Germain L’Auxerrois church to pray.
by Famvin Media Resources | Jun 3, 2025 | Formation, Vincentian Places
On Christmas Eve in 1842, Frederic and his wife Amélie attended midnight Mass at the Abbey-au-Bois, located on the rue de Sèvres.
by Famvin Media Resources | May 27, 2025 | Formation, Vincentian Places
The Church of Saint-Sulpice was a familiar place in the life of Ozanam, for various reasons.
by Famvin Media Resources | May 20, 2025 | Formation, Vincentian Places
After Ozanam’s wife experienced her first miscarriage, Ozanam took refuge in the St. Germain L’Auxerrois church to pray.
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Having become a professor at the Sorbonne, Frederic Ozanam would live with Amélie (his wife) and later Marie (their daughter) on rue de Grenelle, rue Garancière, and rue de Fleurus, all located in the same general neighborhood of Paris.
by Famvin Media Resources | May 6, 2025 | Formation, Vincentian Places
Having become a professor at the Sorbonne, Frederic Ozanam would live with Amélie (his wife) and later Marie (their daughter) on rue de Grenelle, rue Garancière, and rue de Fleurus, all located in the same general neighborhood of Paris.
by Famvin Media Resources | Apr 29, 2025 | Formation, Vincentian Places
Having become a professor at the Sorbonne, Frederic Ozanam would live with Amélie (his wife) and later Marie (their daughter) on rue de Grenelle, rue Garancière, and rue de Fleurus, all located in the same general neighborhood of Paris.
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To support passionate students such as Frédéric Ozanam, Joseph Emmanuel Bailly opened his newspaper office as a gathering place.
by Famvin Media Resources | Apr 15, 2025 | Formation, Vincentian Places
iI was at No 38 of the current Rue Saint-Sulpice − previously Rue Petit-Bourbon Saint-Sulpice − that, on 23 April 1833, Emmanuel Bailly welcomed Frédéric Ozanam and his friends, François, Jules, Auguste, Félix and Paul. This meeting founded the first “Charity Conference.”
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At one point in his life, prior to 1844, Frederic Ozanam taught three classes to seniors there each week to enhance his meager salary.
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In a letter to François Lallier, Ozanam explained the intent of the research he had been conducting, in particular at Sainte-Geneviève Library.
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Frederic Ozanam initiated the famed “Conferences of Notre Dame” which provided thousands with the inspired and enlightening sermons of Père Lacordaire.
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While a student at the Sorbonne, Frédéric found a guardian in André-Marie Ampère, a mathematical expert, and French physician who himself was Lyonnais.