Jean-Baptiste Rauzan

After the Revolution, he returned to France and took up residence in Paris, where he often preached at Notre-Dame-des-Champs and taught catechism.

In 1802, Charles-François d'Aviau Du Bois de Sanzay, the newly installed Archbishop of Bordeaux, appointed Rauzan to a supervisory position.

On the recommendation of d'Aviau, Cardinal Fesch, Archbishop of Lyons, asked Rauzan to form an association of priests to preach parish missions.

[2] the Missionaries of France were so successful they won the support of Napoleon who gave them funds to defray expenses in conducting the missions.

He was joined by Charles Auguste Marie Joseph, Count of Forbin-Janson, Vicar-General of the Diocese of Chambéry and others.

Rauzan founded the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Clotilde for the education of young ladies.

[3] In 1839, at the suggestion of Bishop Hughes, of New York, Forbin-Janson introduced the Fathers of Mercy into the United States.