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97-493: The Georgetown University Library was created with a donation of over 100 volumes of books in 1796 by Louis William Valentine Dubourg , the third President of Georgetown College . The library's largest building, the Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library , is located on Georgetown's main campus and holds the majority of the library system's collections. Blommer Science Library is located in

194-843: A noblesse oblige . Pursuant to the Concordat of 1801 , he swore an oath of allegiance to the French government before King Charles X on 13 November 1826. DuBourg found his episcopacy in France much less taxing than that on the American frontier. At the time he was installed a bishop, the Diocese of Montauban had 242,000 Catholics, 353 priests, grand churches, seminaries and lay schools, and numerous religious orders operating. During his seven years in Montauban, DuBourg improved education in

291-552: A fort (1685). Alcohol traffic, major loss of mission housing by fire in 1694, and other factors necessitated the move of the first mission to one on the edge of the rivière des Prairies, near the Sault-au-Récollet rapids, in north end Montreal island. In 1717, the Compagnie de Saint-Sulpice de Paris was granted. a concession (~10.5 miles of frontage, ~9 miles deep) named seigneurie du Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes. In 1721,

388-547: A lay collegiate counterpart to St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore. He also selected the site of Baltimore's first cathedral and became the ecclesiastical superior to Elizabeth Ann Seton 's newly founded Sisters of Charity . In 1812, DuBourg was made the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Louisiana and the Two Floridas, and three years later, its bishop. Catholic New Orleanians rejected his authority and he

485-603: A Sulpician priest, Pierre Babade. Seton appealed DuBourg's instruction to John Carroll, who referred the matter to Nagot, the Suplician superior in the United States. In response to the dispute, DuBourg resigned as superior of Seton's religious community. Despite Seton's desire that DuBourg would remain as superior, he declined and Nagot refused to order him to return. With the Louisiana Purchase of 1803,

582-829: A brief period in the 1990s, the Sulpicians were also involved in teaching at St. John's Seminary in Camarillo , the college seminary for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles . In 1917, the construction of the Sulpician Seminary began in Washington, D.C. , next to The Catholic University of America . The seminary, which became an independent institution in 1924, changed its name to Theological College in 1940. It has graduated over 1,500 priests, including 45 bishops and four cardinals . American Sulpicians gained

679-660: A cleric and son of a noble family , the French Revolution forced him into exile in Spain. In 1794, DuBourg sailed to the United States and began teaching and ministering in Baltimore , becoming the president of Georgetown College in Washington in 1795. He significantly improved the quality of the institution, but mounted a substantial debt and was ousted by the Jesuit owners of the college in 1798. DuBourg then founded

776-605: A collaborative approach to priestly formation with the bishops of Zambia. As of 2014 the American Province has several seminary placements in Zambia and a number of new Zambian Sulpicians and Candidates. The American Province has also distinguished itself by producing several outstanding scholars and authors in the field of theology and scriptural studies. Among the most well-known was Scripture scholar Raymond E. Brown , S.S.. The 2012 Annuario Pontificio gave 293 as

873-437: A lay fraternal organization of parishioners that provided charity for the city. DuBourg played an important role in the construction of Baltimore's first cathedral . Bishop Carroll desired to replace St. Peter's Pro-Cathedral with a proper cathedral , and DuBourg convinced him to move it from St. Peter's to a new location. DuBourg identified a site atop a hill, which would become known as Cathedral Hill , and negotiated with

970-526: A new approach to priestly preparation, Olier gathered a few priests and seminarians around him in Vaugirard, a suburb of Paris, in the final months of 1641. Shortly thereafter, he moved his operation to the parish of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, hence the name of the new Society. After several adjustments, he built a seminary next to the current church of Saint-Sulpice. The Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice thereby became

1067-611: A particular problem since although a cheap source of labour, their presence in a male religious community was problematic. The superior of the Séminaire de Montréal was inherently also the Island of Montreal's seigneur. In the case of M. Vachon de Belmont, who was responsible for the mission of La Montagne, sixth superior of the Montreal Sulpicians, the master designer of the fort and Sulpicians' residential château, and who

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1164-467: A polished and effective preacher . In October 1795, just several months after arriving in the United States, DuBourg was appointed by Carroll to succeed Robert Molyneux as the third president of Georgetown College . He was one of four Sulpicians to serve on the faculty during the founding era of the Jesuit college, who together had a significant influence on the school's development. DuBourg had an ambitious vision for Georgetown, seeking to make it

1261-463: A reputation for forward-thinking at certain points of their history, to the suspicion and dissatisfaction of more conservative members of the hierarchy. They were on the cutting edge of Vatican II thinking and thus gained both friends and enemies. A constant in the Sulpician seminaries has been an emphasis on personal spiritual direction and on collegial governance. In 1989, U.S. Sulpicians began

1358-614: A result, enrollment at St. Mary's College grew rapidly, overtaking that of Georgetown. Students arrived not only from the West Indies, but from South America, Mexico, and many parts of the United States. The new college was chartered by the State of Maryland in 1805, and was elevated to university status by the Maryland General Assembly the following year. To accommodate the prospering school, DuBourg oversaw

1455-627: A school for girls in the Georgetown area in 1798. Though DuBourg's improvements elevated the college's quality, they placed Georgetown in substantial debt. Donations were inadequate to offset this debt, which was worsened by economic stagnation in Washington in the 1790s. This strained the relationship between DuBourg and the Jesuits, who were forced to sell some land in Maryland to meet

1552-519: A vast new territory became part of the United States. The first bishop overseeing this territory, which spanned from the Gulf of Mexico to the Illinois Territory , was transferred to another diocese in 1801, leaving the bishopric vacant. The second bishop appointed, Francisco Porró y Reinado , never took possession of the diocese and either died or was appointed to another diocese. Moreover,

1649-494: A vessel to transfer him to the Sulpician enterprise in Montreal, which was quite successful and has endured down to the present day. In July 1791, four Sulpicians, newly arrived from France, established the first Catholic institution for the training of clergy in the newly formed United States: St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore . They were Francis Charles Nagot , Anthony Gamier, Michael Levadoux , and John Tessier, who had fled

1746-533: Is also an interlibrary loan services agreement with other universities on the Education City campus and with Qatar University. The Library houses over 90,000 books, and over 6,000 multimedia items. The Library space is open to the public. As of 2016, over 650,000 members of the GU-Q community and the general public have visited the library since 2005. The Maternal and Child Health Library was founded in 1982 and

1843-915: Is part of the Georgetown's National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health. Georgetown is part of the Washington Research Library Consortium , a joint initiative by nine universities in the District of Columbia which coordinates access and resources between the nine library systems. Members may borrow books from other libraries in the system and they share off-site storage, among other initiatives. Louis William Valentine Dubourg Louis William Valentine DuBourg PSS ( French : Louis-Guillaume-Valentin DuBourg ; 10 January 1766 – 12 December 1833)

1940-784: Is the main library of the Georgetown University Law Center . The Wolff International and Comparative Law Library is housed separately from the Williams Law Library in the Hotung International Law Center Building. Its collection focuses on primary and secondary foreign sources, with materials from Australia , Canada , France , Germany , Great Britain , Ireland , Mexico , New Zealand , Scotland , and South Africa , and other nations. It also has extensive documents from international organizations including

2037-696: The College of Guienne , where he proved to be a good student. Deciding that he would become a priest , DuBourg entered the Saint-Sulpice Seminary , attached to the Church of Saint-Sulpice , in 1786. There, he studied under the direction of Francis Charles Nagot , who would later introduce the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice to the United States. In 1788, Nagot selected DuBourg to be

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2134-672: The French Revolution , twelve Sulpicians fled persecution by the National Convention and emigrated to Montreal , Quebec . According to Pierre-Auguste Fournet, the Sulpicians of Montreal would have died out had not the British Government opened Canada to the priests persecuted during the French Revolution. After lengthy negotiations, in 1840 the British Crown recognized the possessions of

2231-524: The Georgetown University Medical Center . It is named after John Vinton Dahlgren . Riggs Memorial Library served as the main library of Georgetown between 1891 and 1970, until it was replaced by Lauinger Library. Riggs library, which is located on the third floor of Healy Hall , is one of the few existing cast-iron libraries in the country and still serves its original purpose of storing books. The Williams Law Library

2328-677: The Mississippi River . DuBourg also sought to promote education in the diocese. In order to be able to train priests at home, rather than rely on a European missionaries, he established St. Mary's of the Barrens Seminary in Perryville in 1818, placing it under the charge of the Lazarist fathers. In August of that year, he also recruited the future saint Rose Philippine Duchesne and her religious order from France,

2425-727: The Permanent Court of International Justice , the League of Nations , the United Nations , European Union , International Court of Justice , World Trade Organization , GATT , and the Council of Europe . The James Reardon-Anderson Library (formerly SFS-Q Library) offers online access to more than 2 million scholarly resources and an intercampus loans service with Georgetown's library services in Washington DC. There

2522-511: The Society for the Propagation of the Faith several years later. He eventually sailed to the United States from France on 1 July 1817. He returned with five priests—including several Lazarists from Rome, among whom were Felix de Andreis and Joseph Rosati —and 26 other men from Italy and France—including Antoine Blanc —who intended to become priests or brothers . DuBourg also invited

2619-873: The Society of the Sacred Heart , to open schools for girls on the frontier . They founded the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Charles as the first free school west of the Mississippi River. They opened another soon thereafter in Florissant . DuBourg also invited the Sisters of Loretto to establish a school for girls. In 1818, at DuBourg's instruction, the Saint Louis Academy was founded. Operating out of several rented rooms, its purpose

2716-595: The Sulpicians , is a society of apostolic life of Pontifical Right for men, named after the Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris , where it was founded. The members of the Society add the nominal letters PSS after their names to indicate membership in the Congregation. Typically, priests become members of the Society of the Priests of St. Sulpice only after ordination and some years of pastoral work. The purpose of

2813-599: The Ursuline nuns to establish a ministry in the diocese, and nine postulants accepted. He arrived in Annapolis, Maryland on 4 September. Upon returning to his diocese, DuBourg decided that it was not safe for him in New Orleans, and he took up residence in St. Louis, Missouri . As such, he became the first bishop to use the city of St. Louis as his episcopal see . The overland journey from Maryland to St. Louis

2910-764: The War of 1812 . During the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, DuBourg called on Catholics to support the Americans over the British. Following the American victory, on 23 January 1815, Major General Andrew Jackson entered the city and was escorted by DuBourg into the St. Louis Cathedral , where he was greeted with a Te Deum hymn. In order to alleviate the shortage of priests and lack of institutions, DuBourg sailed to Europe in 1815 to recruit priests and fundraise. While in Rome , he

3007-819: The persecution of clerics during the Reign of Terror , he left the seminary . Five days later, on 15 August 1792, it was attacked by a Jacobin mob that massacred the four remaining priests. DuBourg fled first to Bourdeaux. However, his aristocratic lineage, the presence of anti-clerical spies, and the conduct of home inspections forced him to eventually leave France. Disguised as a traveling fiddler , he escaped to Ourense , Spain. While exiled in Spain, DuBourg became fluent in Spanish . The Spanish government believed French clergy were engaged in heterodox practices, and restricted their ability to teach and publicly minister. Dissatisfied with these limitations, DuBourg sailed for

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3104-635: The vicar general died in 1804, leaving no one to oversee the diocese. While Carroll and the Holy See corresponded to select a new bishop, Carroll named DuBourg the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Louisiana and the Two Floridas on 18 August 1812. Upon becoming administrator, DuBourg found an expansive diocese with few priests, hardly any churches, and no Catholic schools or charitable institutions. Upon arriving in New Orleans , he found

3201-508: The 18th century they attracted the sons of the nobility, as well as candidates from the common class, and produced a large number of the French bishops. The Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice was closed during the French Revolution, and its teachers and students scattered to avoid persecution. That Revolution also led to the secularization of the University of Paris . When France stabilized, theology courses were offered exclusively in seminaries, and

3298-749: The Abbés Ambrose Maréchal , Gabriel Richard and Francis Ciquard. Many of these early priests were sent as missionaries to remote areas of the United States and its territories. Flaget and David founded the Catholic Seminary of St. Thomas, at Bardstown, Kentucky . It was the first seminary west of the Appalachians. Their St. Thomas Catholic Church, built there in 1816, is the oldest surviving brick church in Kentucky . In 1796, Louis William Valentine Dubourg arrived and became

3395-447: The Bay of Quinte, north of Lake Ontario, the Mi'kmaq in Acadia, the Haudenosaunee on the present site of Ogdensburg in the State of New York and, finally, the Algonquins in Abitibi and Témiscamingue. François Dollier de Casson and Brehan de Gallinée explored the region of the Great Lakes (1669), of which they made a map. In 1676 the mission of La Montagne was opened on the site of the present Séminaire de Montréal, where M. Belmont built

3492-450: The Cultural Heritage Act of Quebec. Sulpicians set foot in what is now the United States as early as 1670 when Fathers Dollier de Casson and Brehan de Galinee from Brittany landed in what would later become Detroit , Michigan . In 1684 Robert de la Salle headed an ill-fated expedition from France to what is now Texas, taking with him three priests, all Sulpicians. These were Fathers Dollier de Casson, Brehan de Galinee, and Jean Cavelier,

3589-559: The French Revolution. Purchasing the One Mile Tavern then on the edge of the city, they dedicated the house to the Blessed Virgin . In October they opened classes with five students whom they had brought from France, and thereby established the first enduring community of the Society in the nation. In March, 1792 three more priests arrived, Abbé Chicoisneau, Abbé John Baptist Mary David , and Abbé Benedict Joseph Flaget . Two seminarians arrived with them, Stephen T. Badin and another named Barret. They were joined in June of that same year by

3686-445: The Jesuit missions and obtained federal funding for the establishment of Indian schools. On 7 January 1824, DuBourg offered the Jesuits to assume control of the academy, which became known as Saint Louis College in 1820. The Jesuits accepted this offer in 1827, and Peter Verhaegen became the first Jesuit president of the college, which was chartered as Saint Louis University several years later. The school's first Jesuit treasurer

3783-454: The Maryland Jesuits eventually took steps to oust DuBourg in 1798, leading to his resignation. He was succeeded by Francis Neale's brother, Leonard Neale , at Christmas . Upon leaving Georgetown, DuBourg traveled to Havana , Cuba, where he joined two other Sulpicians seeking to establish a college there. However, this project faced political opposition, and DuBourg returned to Baltimore in August 1799. That year, DuBourg founded and became

3880-438: The Reiss Science building, on Georgetown's main campus. It stores materials for undergraduate and graduate study in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and physics. The Woodstock Theological Library is one of the oldest Catholic theological libraries in the United States, having been founded in 1869. The library moved to Georgetown in 1974, accompanying the Woodstock Theological Center, which closed in 2013, although

3977-527: The Saint-Sulpice Seminary. The administration of the Séminaire de Montreal was modeled on that of the Séminaire de Paris, in which the company was run by the superior, the four-man Consulting Council, and the Assembly of Twelve Assistants. According to the rules of the seminary in 1764, the superior, during his five-year renewable term, was to act like a father and was to be respected. The seminary kept careful records of all employees including birthday, place of birth, marital status, and salary. Female employees posed

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4074-494: The Seminaire de Saint-Sulpice. Just as in Paris, the Montreal Sulpicians had important civil responsibilities. Most notably, they acted as seigneurs for the island of Montreal. The Sulpicians served as missionaries, judges, explorers, schoolteachers, social workers, supervisors of convents, almsmen, canal builders, urban planners, colonization agents, and entrepreneurs. Despite their large role in society and their influence in shaping early Montreal, each night they would all return to

4171-400: The Society of St. Sulpice of Montreal created Univers culturel de Saint-Sulpice, a non-profit organization whose mission is to ensure the preservation, accessibility and outreach of the archives, movable heritage assets and old and rare books of their community. The rare book collections situated at the Grand Séminaire de Montréal Library (now Institut de formation théologique de Montréal), and

4268-455: The Sulpicians moved the Sault-au-Récollet mission to two villages on seigneurie Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes territory; a first village to the west, which was their former hunting grounds and came to be called Kanesatake , was assigned to the Mohawks, and, later, a village to the east was assigned to the Algonquins and the Nipissings. On April 29, 1764, the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice de Paris executed an act of donation giving all Canadian property to

4365-402: The Sulpicians resumed their educational mission. Sulpician seminaries earned and maintained reputations for solid academic teaching and high moral tone. The Society spread from France to Canada, the United States and to several other foreign countries, including eventually to Vietnam and French Africa, where French Sulpician seminaries are found even today. The Sulpicians played a major role in

4462-429: The Sulpicians, the status of which had been ambiguous since the Conquest, while also providing for the gradual termination of the seigneurial regime. This enabled the Sulpicians to keep their holdings and continue their work, while allowing landowners who so desired to make a single final payment ( commutation ) and be relieved of all future seigneurial dues. Inauguration in 1825 of the Lachine Canal opened up markets to

4559-463: The Séminaire Saint-Sulpice located in Old Montreal, host different collections from different institutions Sulpicians created from the 17th century to the 20th century (Séminaire Saint-Sulpice, Collège de Montréal, Grand Séminaire de Montréal, Séminaire de Philosophie, Collège pontifical canadien de Rome, and Collège André Grasset). These books span from the late Middle Ages to the mid 20th century. The works in these libraries were used for teaching and for

4656-555: The Séminaire de Montréal making possible the survival of the Sulpicians to become British subjects, loyal to the Crown. In the wake of the Conquest of 1760 , the Séminaire de Montreal thus became independent from the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice de Paris. By contrast, since 1763, other male-affiliated religious orders deemed to be too dependent on France and Rome, that is, the Récollets and Jésuit orders, were prevented from recruiting members and these religious orders properties were confiscated to become British Crown property. In 1794 after

4753-399: The United States and arrived in Baltimore, Maryland , on 14 December 1794. He was incardinated in the Diocese of Baltimore by Bishop John Carroll and petitioned Jacques-André Emery , the Sulpician Superior General , for admission to the order, which was by then operating in Baltimore. On 9 March 1795, he became a professed member of the Society of Saint Sulpice. In Baltimore, there

4850-428: The United States' interior via the Erie Canal (opened in 1822), which in turn provided the impetus for the rapid sudden development of North America's largest industrial park in the area known as Pointe-Saint-Charles , named after Charles le Moyne . A large part of Pointe-Saint-Charles was occupied by the Sulpicians' Saint-Gabriel Farm established in 1659 and named after the first superior, Gabriel de Queylus . At

4947-399: The United States, the Oblate Sisters of Providence . The Society helped to found and staff for a time St. John's Seminary , part of the Archdiocese of Boston (1884–1911). In that same period, for a brief time they also staffed St. Joseph Seminary , serving the Archdiocese of New York (1896–1906). The Sulpicians who staffed that institution chose to leave the Society and become part of

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5044-406: The United States. The Society of Priests of Saint Sulpice was founded in France in 1641 by Father Jean-Jacques Olier (1608–1657), an exemplar of the French School of Spirituality . A disciple of Vincent de Paul and Charles de Condren , Olier took part in "missions" organized by them. The French priesthood at that time suffered from low morale, academic deficits and other problems. Envisioning

5141-404: The acquaintance of Thomas Law , a merchant who enrolled his son at Georgetown. Through Law, DuBuissson received an invitation to dine with the former President George Washington at his home, Mount Vernon , in July 1797. The following month, Washington visited Georgetown's campus. Around this time, DuBourg also invited a group of Poor Clares who fled the revolution in France, and they founded

5238-473: The archdiocese. Among their number was Francis Gigot . In 1898, at the invitation of the Archbishop of San Francisco , Patrick William Riordan , the Sulpicians founded what was, until 2017, their primary institution on the West Coast, Saint Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park , California . From the 1920s until about 1971, the Society operated St. Edward Seminary in Kenmore, Washington . The grounds now form Saint Edward State Park and Bastyr University . For

5335-567: The best college in the United States. One historian of the university credits him with transforming Georgetown from an "academy" into a "college." Seeking to make the school more cosmopolitan, DuBourg recruited many students from Baltimore, particularly French refugees from the West Indies. He also admitted many non-Catholics. Overall, the size of the student body grew during his tenure. DuBourg solicited financial support from Catholic donors, which allowed him to sponsor sixteen students throughout his tenure to study at Georgetown in preparation for

5432-417: The building ini 1808. DuBourg ministered to and provided charity to the many refugees living in Baltimore who had fled Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution. With John Tessier , he also established a congregation for the many poor Black Baltimoreans who met and celebrated Mass at St. Mary's Chapel. From this congregation eventually formed the Oblate Sisters of Providence . DuBourg also established

5529-405: The church in St. Louis. DuBourg remained in New Orleans for three years, and once again met local opposition. On 28 August 1825, he became the Vicar Apostolic of Mississippi , in addition to his episcopal duties. He found a shortage of priests in Louisiana but faced resistance when trying to establish a seminary in New Orleans or transfer priests from other parts of the diocese. By this time, he

5626-414: The colonists. The Jesuits served as missionaries for the small colony until 1657 when Olier sent four priests from the Saint-Sulpice seminary in Paris to form the first parish. In 1663, France decided to substitute direct royal administration over New France for that hitherto exercised by the Company of One Hundred Associates, and in the same year the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal ceded its possessions to

5723-412: The company as long as they were priests and had permission from their bishop. The Sulpicians would thus recruit wealthy individuals since Sulpicians did not take vows of poverty. They retained ownership of individual property and were free to dispose their wealth. The Sulpicians soon came to be known for the revival of the parish life, reform of seminary life, and the revitalization of spirituality. In

5820-438: The construction of several new buildings. Among these was St. Mary's Seminary Chapel , referred to by Elizabeth Ann Seton as "Mr. DuBourg's chapel." DuBourg hired Maximilian Godefroy to design the chapel, who he had previously appointed to the faculty of St. Mary's. Work began in 1806, and DuBourg expedited the project by retaining Benjamin Henry Latrobe , the Architect of the Capitol , whose skilled Italian artists completed

5917-557: The country joined her. DuBourg was influential in the founding of her religious community. He contributed $ 8,000 to establish her religious community, and proposed that she adopt the rule of the French Sisters of Charity. Heeding this proposal, she established a community of the Sisters of Charity on 31 July 1809, in Emmitsburg, Maryland . While Seton was the head of the organization, DuBourg functioned as their ecclesiastical superior. Before long, tensions arose between Seton and DuBourg, who forbade her from communicating with her mentor,

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6014-495: The curriculum by adding courses in history , moral philosophy , natural philosophy , and Spanish; music, dancing, and drawing were also taught for the first time. He instituted new features, including the college's first seal and uniforms for students. He promoted the school's public image by advertising its favorable situation upon a hill and proximity to Washington, D.C. , the seat of the federal government . DuBourg became active in Washington's high society , including making

6111-455: The day, but at night they would return to their institutions. Jean-Jacques Olier attempted to control diverse social groups by having laymen of the community give reports on family life, poverty, and disorder. The Sulpicians were very strict in regards to women and sexuality to the extent that they were eventually banned from the seminary unless it was for short visits in the external area with appropriate attire. The Sulpicians accepted aspirants to

6208-442: The diocese and increased the number of scholarships for students. He also dissuaded the French authorities from persecuting Catholics in the diocese during the July Revolution of 1830. In February 1833, DuBourg was appointed to succeed Cardinal Louis-François de Rohan-Chabot as the Archbishop of Besançon . By this time, however, his health had deteriorated, and he visited the thermal baths of Luxeuil-les-Bains for relief. He

6305-493: The enrichment of knowledge on various subjects, allowing the Sulpicians to fulfill their mission as educators. These collections are an expression of scholarly culture. They provide information on the social and intellectual concerns of Québec's elites, on the evolution of ideas in many fields between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, and on the value of the education provided at the time. In 2021, these collections (including archives and moveable heritage assets) were added to

6402-555: The explorer's older brother. This expedition ended in failure, and the vessel carrying the three Sulpicians was shipwrecked in what is now the state of Texas. Among the survivors were the three Sulpicians, two of whom returned to France on the next available vessel. The third, Dollier de Casson, decided to remain to catechize the natives. This, after all, was a major motive for his coming. He met with little success in this endeavor, however, and finally decided to return to France as had his companions. His missionary zeal unslaked, he soon found

6499-492: The financial obligations. The trustees of the Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergymen, which owned Georgetown, elected new Jesuits to the college's board of directors and empowered the board to remove the president. In October 1797, the board decided to keep DuBourg as president, but stripped him of his power over Georgetown's finances, transferring it to a new vice president, Francis Neale , who implemented strict austerity measures. Motivated in part by anti-French sentiment ,

6596-415: The first Sulpician seminary. There the first seminarians got their spiritual formation, while taking most theology courses at the Sorbonne. The spirit of this new seminary and its founder caught the attention of many leaders in the French Church; and before long, members of the new Society staffed a number of new seminaries elsewhere in the country. Sulpician priests contributed to the parish community during

6693-429: The first president of a college for lay students at St. Mary's Seminary . Though DuBourg initially intended the school to be open for general education, Bishop Carroll required that admission be limited only to West Indian students, so as not to compete with Georgetown College. As a result, many Cubans who had met DuBourg during his time in Havana sent their sons to be educated at St. Mary's College. The Jesuits opposed

6790-399: The founding of St. Mary's College, and DuBourg offered to resolve the dispute by closing St. Mary's College and transferring its students and faculty to Georgetown; however, the Jesuits did not act on this proposal. In 1800, the Sulpicians lodged a protest with Carroll over the restriction on admitting only West Indian students. DuBourg travelled to Cuba in 1802 to recruit students, where he

6887-459: The founding of the Canadian city of Montreal , where they engaged in missionary activities, trained priests and constructed the Saint-Sulpice Seminary . The Société Notre-Dame de Montréal , of which Jean-Jacques Olier was an active founder, was granted the land of Montreal from the Company of One Hundred Associates , which owned New France, with the aim of converting the indigenous population and providing schools and hospitals for both them and

6984-503: The library remains in existence. The School of Continuing Studies Downtown Library opened with the move of Georgetown's School of Continuing Studies to a new Downtown campus in 2013. The library offers course reserve materials and provides a pickup location for materials from other libraries. The Bioethics Research Library is located on the first floor of Healy Hall . Dahlgren Memorial Library provides information and digital services and resources to support faculty, staff, and students of

7081-815: The local Catholic population aligned with their pastor , a Capuchin priest, Antonio de Sedella . Sedella rejected the jurisdiction of Carroll, an American bishop, to appoint DuBourg as administrator over the French clergy in Louisiana. Due to hostility from the locals, DuBourg was forced to reside outside of the city. Meanwhile, while the Holy See eventually settled on DuBourg as the next bishop, he could not be immediately appointed. Pope Pius VII had been taken prisoner by Napoleon in 1809, and then forcibly brought to France in 1812. In protest of his captivity, Pope Pius refused to issue any papal bulls , including those appointing bishops. The diocese became embroiled in

7178-412: The poor in a religious way of life came to found the first American congregation of Sisters in 1809. The Sulpicians served as their religious superiors until 1850, when the original community located there chose to merge with another religious institute of Sisters. In 1829, Sulpician Fr. James Joubert worked with Mary Lange , a Haitian immigrant, to establish the first community of black sisters in

7275-693: The present day . Canadian Sulpicians may be found operating in seminaries in Montreal and Edmonton . In 1972 the Canadian Province established a Provincial Delegation for Latin America , based in Bogotá , Colombia . In Latin America, the Society functions in Brazil ( Brasilia and Londrina) and Colombia (Cali, Cucuta and Manizales). They have also served in Fukuoka , Japan since 1933. In 2006,

7372-478: The president of Georgetown University . Later he became the first bishop of the Louisiana Territory . A decade later, Dubourg was instrumental in the transfer from New York City of the widow and recent convert Elizabeth Seton , who had been unsuccessful in her efforts to run a school, in part to care for her family. With his encouragement, she and other women drawn to the vision of caring for

7469-486: The request of Bishop Ignace Bourget , in 1840 the Sulpicians took over the diocesan school of theology, creating the famous Grand Séminaire de Montréal . Since 1857 it has been located on Sherbrooke Street near Atwater Avenue. This operation enabled the Montreal Sulpicians to expand their primary work, the education of priests. They have trained innumerable priests and bishops, Canadian and American, down to

7566-590: The sale with the owner of the land. He then raised the $ 23,000 necessary to purchase the land, equivalent to $ 450,000 in 2023. Construction on the cathedral began in 1806. In 1806, DuBourg was in New York City to sell lottery tickets as a fundraiser for St. Mary's University, where he met the future saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, who he urged to travel to Baltimore to establish a school for girls. Seton opened her school in June 1808, where women from around

7663-450: The seminary. In 1797, he sponsored one potential seminarian instead of accepting a salary increase. DuBourg hired 16 new teachers, greatly expanding the size of the college's faculty and raised the salary of professors. A significant departure from his predecessors, the significant majority of professors he hired were laymen , rather than clerics. In keeping with his mission to make Georgetown an elite college, DuBourg improved and expanded

7760-488: The society is mainly the education of priests and to some extent parish work. As their main role is the education of those preparing to become priests, Sulpicians place great emphasis on the academic and spiritual formation of their own members, who commit themselves to undergoing lifelong development in these areas. The Society is divided into three provinces, operating in various countries: the Province of France, Canada, and

7857-585: The superior of the newly established Sulpician minor seminary in Issy-les-Moulineaux , outside of Paris . At the same time, he continued his studies at the College of Sorbonne , and was ordained a priest by Antoine-Éléonor-Léon Leclerc de Juigné , the Archbishop of Paris , on 20 March 1790. DuBourg was not in Issy long before the school became the target of the French Revolution . With

7954-593: Was Pierre-Jean De Smet , who became a famous missionary to the Indians. The lower division of the academy became St. Louis University High School . In 1823, DuBourg's time in St. Louis came to an end. While he had visited New Orleans every year while his seat was in St. Louis, he decided it proper to return the diocesan seat to New Orleans and requested the appointment of Joseph Rosati as his coadjutor bishop . He consecrated Rosati on 25 March 1824, and left him to oversee

8051-465: Was Pierre DuBourg, who held the titles of chevalier de la Loubère et Saint-Christaud and Sieur de Rochemont . Pierre was a licensed sea captain and highly successful merchant in the coffee trade. Following the death of his mother, when he was two years of age, DuBourg was sent to France to be educated. He lived with his maternal grandparents in Bordeaux , and eventually enrolled at

8148-484: Was a French Catholic prelate and Sulpician missionary to the United States. He built up the church in the vast new Louisiana Territory as the Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas and later became the Bishop of Montauban and finally the Archbishop of Besançon in France. Born in the colony of Saint-Domingue , DuBourg was sent to France at a young age to be educated and entered the Society of Saint Sulpice . As

8245-508: Was a rapidly growing population of West Indians who had fled the Haitian Revolution , and French who had fled the French Revolution; in a short time, they doubled the total number of Catholics in the United States. DuBourg began ministering to these French-speaking immigrants and holding classes for their children, as well as those of Spanish immigrants. By teaching these classes, DuBourg learned English, and came to be regarded as

8342-549: Was also weary of traveling throughout the expansive diocese. Therefore, DuBourg sailed to Rome, and on 26 June 1826, he resigned the bishopric. Later that year, the large diocese was split into the Diocese of New Orleans and the new Diocese of St. Louis. By the end of his episcopacy, 40 new churches had been built, in addition to many schools. This significant development, however, left the diocese with considerable debt. Believing that he would enter retirement, DuBourg returned to France on 3 July 1826. However, soon thereafter, he

8439-435: Was dedicated on 10 January 1898. Bishop DuBourg High School in St. Louis, Missouri, opened in 1950. It is known that Dubourg, like two other early bishops in St. Louis, owned slaves. Discussion are ongoing in the archdiocese about how to address the issue. Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice The Society of Priests of Saint-Sulpice ( French : Compagnie des Prêtres de Saint-Sulpice ; PSS ), also known as

8536-603: Was forced to move his episcopal seat to St. Louis, Missouri . There, he built the first cathedral west of the Mississippi River and established missions to the American Indians , dozens of churches, and numerous schools, including St. Mary's of the Barrens Seminary and Saint Louis University . He also recruited the Sisters of Loretto and Rose Philippine Duchesne 's Sisters of the Sacred Heart to found several academies. Never able to establish his seat in New Orleans, DuBourg returned to France in 1826, where he

8633-637: Was formally installed as bishop of the archdiocese on 10 October 1833, and he received the pallium on 1 November. Though confined to his deathbed, DuBourg organized two retreats for the 900 priests of his archdiocese. Two months after his installation, he died in Bensançon on 12 December 1833. He was interred in the Cathédrale Saint-Jean in Besançon. Several institutions bear the name of DuBourg. DuBourg Hall at Saint Louis University

8730-481: Was independently wealthy, was very well educated and had trained as draughtsman and architect, M. Belmont had a more than passing interest in military strategy and architecture. M. Belmont's military strategy stamp is also evident in the implementation of the Sault-au-Récollet's fr:Fort Lorette and the seigneurie Lac-de-Deux-Montagnes' fort. In 1668, several Sulpicians went to evangelize the Haudenosaunee in

8827-481: Was informed by the Spanish government —which feared the education of Cubans in a republican country—that Cuban students would no longer be allowed to attend school in Baltimore. The following year, the Spanish Navy sent a frigate to Baltimore to demand that all Spanish nationals return. Carroll then lifted the restriction on enrollment, and the school began admitting students of any nationality in 1803. As

8924-609: Was made the Bishop of Montauban. Just months before his death in 1833, he became the Archbishop of Besançon. Louis-Guillaume-Valentin DuBourg was born in the city of Cap-Français (known today as Cap-Haïtien) in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue , likely on 10 January 1766. Born to a noble family originally from Bordeaux , France, his mother was Marguerite DuBourg née Armand de Vogluzan and his father

9021-406: Was named to replace Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus , the first Bishop of Boston , as the Bishop of Montauban on 2 October of that year. This was possible because with the end of the French Revolution, DuBourg's clerical rights and noble rank were restored. In his writings, he wrote of his dislike for Napoleonic titles of nobility , which carried no social responsibilities , and instead supported

9118-548: Was officially appointed by Pius VII as the Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas . He was consecrated by Cardinal Giuseppe Doria Pamphili on 24 September in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi . He would continue his recruiting in Europe for two years, and while in Lyon , France, he met a widow and expressed his desire to create an organization to raise funds for the church in the vast Louisiana diocese. This eventually became

9215-543: Was perilous and took several weeks. He started out in a stagecoach , which at one point overturned on the rough terrain, causing him to nearly fracture his skull. Unable to continue by stagecoach, he finished the last five days of his journey to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on foot. From there, he traveled by boat to Louisville and Bardstown, Kentucky . DuBourg finally arrived in St. Louis in January 1818, and would remain there for five years. Unlike in New Orleans, DuBourg

9312-576: Was to educate local laymen. Several years later, he requested that the Maryland Jesuits send several of their members to Missouri to staff the diocese's missions to the American Indians . The Jesuits sent several Belgian members, who arrived in 1823, and established a house in Florissant and began ministering to the Indians. DuBourg visited Washington, D.C. in 1823, where he met the U.S. Secretary of War , John C. Calhoun , who encouraged

9409-524: Was warmly received by the Catholics of St. Louis. Shortly after arriving, he began building up the part of the diocese in the Missouri Territory . He soon raised funds to construct churches throughout the region and staff them with priests. Among these was a grand church for St. Louis that would eventually become the cathedral of the Archdiocese of St. Louis and the first cathedral west of

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