Before leaving for Italy in July 1852, Frédéric and Amélie visited the Church of the Carmelites in Paris. They sat...

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Before leaving for Italy in July 1852, Frédéric and Amélie visited the Church of the Carmelites in Paris. They sat...
by Javier F. Chento | Dec 9, 2023 | Formation
The first time Frederic Ozanam ever traveled on his own, from Lyon to Paris, was November 2, 1831; he was about to...
by Javier F. Chento | Dec 2, 2023 | Formation
Pope John Paul I, at the general audience held on Wednesday, September 13, 1978, greeted a group of newlyweds and told...
by Javier F. Chento | Nov 25, 2023 | Formation
Ozanam studied Law by his father. He did not like law studies but, to please his father, he received his doctorate. What he really liked were Letters. Federic practiced Law in Lyon for a short period of time. He wrote in one of his letters: In this profession, your...
by Javier F. Chento | Nov 18, 2023 | Formation
Yet with all his kindness, his students had not found Frederic Ozanam an easy-going master. On the contrary, he was, as a Professor, exceptionally severe. As an examiner he gave no quarter. He so mistrusted his natural tendency to indulgence that conscientiousness...
by Javier F. Chento | Nov 11, 2023 | Formation
Frederic Ozanam was a staunch defender of the faith and the Catholic Church; but if some Protestants made him intermediary in the service of the poor, he was their grateful servant. Once, a young Protestant pastor, having gathered an amount of money among his...
by Javier F. Chento | Nov 4, 2023 | Formation
After some adventures, soon after Frédéric arrived to Paris at age 18, he ended staying at André Marie Ampère's home, a famous scientist, who lived on Rue Fosses-Saint Victor, 19. Frédéric stayed in the room of the son, Jean Jacques Ampère, who at the time was...
by Javier F. Chento | Oct 28, 2023 | Formation
Frédéric thought that aid, almsgiving, is humiliating when only material needs are met, "causing shame, and doing what anyone does even with animals." He says it's humiliating because it can not be reciprocated, they are favors that the other has not the slightest...
by Javier F. Chento | Oct 21, 2023 | Formation
Frederic, while pursuing his studies of Law and Letters at the University of Paris, was almost always short of money. In several letters to his parents (not all, but many) he gives them account of his impoverished economy. He could have to buy a new pair of trousers...
by Javier F. Chento | Oct 14, 2023 | Formation
Frederic did not need modern audiovisual media (now apparently essential) to learn languages. He, at age 17, already knew Latin, Greek, began studying Sanskrit and Hebrew — to be able to translate from the original sources —, and studied German and Italian. By the...
by Javier F. Chento | Oct 7, 2023 | Formation
It was noticed by some of his friends that, after the general Communion at Notre Dame on Holy Thursday, Ozanam, instead of going straight home to his breakfast, disappeared in another direction. They watched him and found that he went first to the baker's and then to...
by Javier F. Chento | Sep 30, 2023 | Formation
In times of Frédéric Ozanam, women were virtually absent from the university. That is why, having emerged the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in the vicinity of the Parisian university, in its early days women did not participate in it. The first female Society of...