Jean-Baptiste Muard

Jean-Baptiste Muard.

Jean-Baptiste Muard (Vireaux, 1809-Pierre-Qui-Vire, 1854) was a French Benedictine, reformer, and founder of religious orders.

Biography

Ordained in 1834, he was parish priest of Joux-la-Ville and then St. Martin d'Avallon^[1] before becoming a monk.

He founded the French province of the Cassinese Congregation of the Primitive Observance^[2] and the Society of Saint Edmund in 1843. In 1850, Jean-Baptiste Muard founded the monastery of Sainte Marie de la Pierre-qui-Vire,^[3] in the Morvan.

References

• Brullee, Vie de P. Muard (Paris, 1855), tr. Robot, 1882
• Thompson, Life of P. Muard (London, 1886) Online text
• Denis Huerre (1994), Petite vie de Jean-Baptiste Muard

Notes

1. Charles Warren Currier, History of Religious Orders, p. 96.
2. Catholic Encyclopedia
3. See fr:Abbaye de la Pierre-Qui-Vire.

External links

• (French) Biography
• (French) Biography
• Walter Troxler (1993). "Muard, Jean-Baptiste". In Bautz, Traugott. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). 6. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 221–222. ISBN 3-88309-044-1.