Claude Poullart des Places

Claude Poullart des Places
Rev. Claude-François
Poullart des Places

Des Places after his ordination as a priest
Born 26 February 1679(1679-02-26)
Rennes, France
Died 2 October 1709(1709-10-02) (aged 30)
Paris, France
Resting place Church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, Paris, France
48°50′48″N 2°20′53″E / 48.84667°N 2.34806°E / 48.84667; 2.34806
Nationality French
Known for Founding the Congregation of the Holy Ghost
Religion Roman Catholicism

Claude-François Poullart des Places, C.S.Sp. (26 February 1679 – 2 October 1709) was a French Catholic priest who founded the Holy Ghost Fathers (Congregation of the Holy Ghost) in 1703 at the age of 24.[1] The decree opening his cause of canonization was promulgated on 1 October 1989, but has not yet proceeded to his beatification.[2]

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Biography

Early life

Claude des Places, was born on 26 February 1679 in Rennes, France, the son of a French aristocrat, François des Places, and his wife, Jeanne le Meneust.[3][4] He was baptized the next day.[1] His family moved twice in his childhood. Following a relocation to Saint-Sauveur-en-Rue, des Places entered the Jesuit Collège Saint-Thomas in October 1690.[1] He studied further under the Jesuits at their college in Rennes and Caen from 1693 to 1695.[1][4][5] Des Places led a mischievous adolescence: he once narrowly missed his sister with a shot from their father's revolver—he thought it was unloaded—when she was annoying him as he studied a role for a school play.[3] He was nearly killed himself during a hunting trip, and got into a roadside brawl in Nantes.[3] He was a talented student, however, and was the valedictorian of his class.[6] For his remarkable graduation dissertation he was invited to Versailles as a guest of France's royal family.[6]

Religious life

Des Places' life began to change when he became aware of the needs of the poor while studying law—he was soon moved to help the homeless boys and chimney sweeps by giving them money from his allowance.[4] Though he graduated with his degree in law from Nantes in 1700,[5] his growing involvement with the poor inspired the young des Places to give up his career.[4] He left the university and entered the Jesuit seminary Lycée Louis-le-Grand in 1701.[1][4][5] He received the tonsure on 15 August 1702.[1]

The church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris, where des Places was buried in a pauper's grave

Seeing that many of his fellow seminarians were struggling to meet their basic needs, des Places began to support a small group of them financially.[5][7] Eventually, des Places joined them in the house that he had provided for them.[2] Soon, a dozen of these students asked des Places to set up a formal community, so on Pentecost Sunday (27 May) of 1703, the group met in the Church of Saint Etienne-des-Grès to dedicate themselves to the Holy Spirit, under the special patronage of Mary.[4][5] The society, which founded a new seminary—the Seminary of the Holy Spirit— had two aims: to support students on their way to the priesthood, and to serve the poor of rural France and in missions overseas.[4][8] The formation process of the new society was uniquelly modelled after that of religious institutes, rather than clerical seminaries.[7]

Des Places received minor orders on 6 June 1705, the same year his community moved to Rue Neuve-Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (Rue Rollin); he was ordained to the subdeaconate on 18 December 1706, and a deacon on 19 March 1707.[1] On 17 December 1707, des Places was ordained at the age of 28.[4]

Veneration

The decree for the cause for his canonization was promulgated on 1 October 1989.[1] Further progress was made in 2005, when the postulator of des Place's cause presented the results of the diocesan inquiry to Rome.[9] A decree of validity was signed on 24 May 2008. A decree of recognition of the heroic nature of des Place's virtues is expected.[9]

Selected bibliography

  • De Mare, Christian (1998). Aux racines de l'arbre spiritain. Paris: Congrégation du Saint-Esprit. pp. 422.  (French)
  • Eschbach, Alphonse (1916). La vie et l'œuvre de Claude-François Poullart des Places: fondateur de la Société du Saint-Esprit. Rome: Via Santa Chiara. pp. 126.  (French)
  • Jacquot, Émile (1998). Biografia de Cláudio Poullart des Places: fundador da Congregação do Espírito Santo. Lisbon: Missionários do Espírito Santo. pp. 15.  (Portuguese)
  • Savoie, Jean (2008). Prier 15 jours avec Claude-François Poullart des Places. Paris: Nouvelle Cite. pp. 125.  (French)
  • Seixas, Joaquín Ramos (1992). Claudio Poullart des Places. Madrid: Congregación del Espíritu Santo. pp. 382.  (Spanish)
  • Troy, Michael J. (2005). Riches to rags: Claude Francis Poullart des Places. Toronto: Spiritans. pp. 102.  (English)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Chronology of the life of Poullart des Places". bythewell.org. Spiritan Community of Taiwan. http://www.bythewell.org/main/index.php?id=460. Retrieved 14 June 2010. 
  2. ^ a b "Claude Poullart des Places". spiritanworld.net. Spiritan International Group for History. http://spiritanworld.net/E/cssp-album/Claude%20P.%20des%20Places.html. Retrieved 14 June 2010. 
  3. ^ a b c Troy, Michael (May 2003). "The Hands That Rocked the Cradle". Spiritan Missionary News. TransCanada Province of the Spiritans. http://www.spiritans.com/desplacespart1.htm. Retrieved June 14, 2010. 
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "Claude des Places". About Us. Congregation of the Holy Spirit USA. http://www.spiritans.org/about/des-places.html. Retrieved June 14, 2010. 
  5. ^ a b c d e Mushi, Gaudence (2007). "The Foundation of the Seminary of the Holy Spirit". Spiritan Generalate - Rome. http://www.spiritanworld.net/cssphistmission/The%20Foundations%20.html. Retrieved June 14, 2010. 
  6. ^ a b Troy, Michael (February 2004). "An Exciting Role Model for Youth". Spiritan Missionary News. TransCanada Province of the Spiritans. http://www.spiritans.com/desplacespart3.htm. Retrieved June 14, 2010. 
  7. ^ a b Troy, Michael (August 2003). "Tomorrow's Labourers". Spiritan Missionary News. TransCanada Province of the Spiritans. http://www.spiritans.com/desplacespart2.htm. Retrieved June 14, 2010. 
  8. ^ Campbell, Paul E. (February 1959). "The Spiritans". The Homiletic and Pastoral Review (Joseph F. Wagner): pp. 471–477. http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=6137. Retrieved June 14, 2010. 
  9. ^ a b "Current State of the Cause of Beatification of Claude Poullart des Places". St. Benedict the Abbot Catholic Church, Houston. http://www.stbenedictchurchhouston.org/pages/spiritans/claudeplaces.html. Retrieved June 14, 2010. 

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Preceded by
—		 Superior General of the
Congregation of the Holy Ghost
1703 – 1709		 Succeeded by
Jacques Garnier

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