Marie-Joseph Ollivier

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Marie-Joseph Ollivier

Marie-Joseph Ollivier OP (18 February 1835 – 19 September 1910) was a Roman Catholic priest, historian, preacher and biographer.

Biography

Marie-Joseph Ollivier was born in Saint-Malo. Ollivier was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Rennes in December 1858. He entered the Dominican Order and became its general preacher. He distinguished himself in the Lenten sermon at Notre-Dame de Paris in the middle of the Paris Commune, then in the many sermons he gave in the cathedral.

He also distinguished himself later in the official tribute paid to the victims of the fire at the Bazar de la Charité, which claimed 130 lives and injured 255, before the President of France Félix Faure. and other members of the government, giving a political character to his sermon.

Marie-Joseph Ollivier died in Levallois-Perret.

Works

• Vie de Maria Nelly (1869)
• Alexandre VI et les Borgia (1870)
• Un curé breton au XIXe siècle; vie de M. Huchet, archiprêtre de la cathédrale de Saint-Malo, vicaire général de Rennes (1888)
• La Passion, essai historique (1891)
• Les Amitiés de Jésus, simple étude (1895)
• Le Père Checarne, de l'Ordre de Saint Dominique (1901)
• De Bethléem à Nazareth: étude historique sur l'enfance et la jeunesse du Rédempteur (1908)

External links

• Works by Marie-Joseph Ollivier at Gallica