Gustave Delacroix de Ravignan

Educated in Paris, he resigned his army commission to study law.

Entering a Sulpician monastery, and later joining the Society of Jesus, he was ordained in 1828, and after several years as professor and retreat preacher at Montrouge, he went to Notre-Dame de Paris, where his logic, serenity, and zeal won souls by the hundreds.

However, the Jesuits' strife continued until they were forced to disband for a time in France.

Despite painful controversy with his superiors and imputations from other quarters, he remained loyal to his order.

He died a saintly death, and thousands followed the remains of the "Apostle of Paris" to his grave.