Gaston De Ségur A Biography

Condensed From The Memoir (souvenirs D'un Frère) By The Marquis De Ségur

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Gaston De Ségur A Biography

Condensed From The Memoir (souvenirs D'un Frère) By The Marquis De Ségur

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Table of Contents

CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
CHILDHOOD, YOUTH AND EARLY MANHOOD.
Birth of Gaston de Segur 1
School days 2
Mother and Son 3
First Communion 4
Countess Rostopchine's letter 5
M. Delaroche's studio 6
Gaston joins the Conference of St. Vincent de Paul 7
An incident in the Hospital 8
Madame Rostopchine 9
Gaston attache to the Roman Embassy 10
Art-studies 11
The deaf Englishman 12
Pere de Villefort 13
Vow in the Chapel of the Gesu 14
Grief of his Mother 14
Letter from Pere de Villefort 16
CHAPTER II.
FIRST YEARS OF PRIESTHOOD.
Gaston de Segur's first Mass 20
In the Rue Cassette 21
Gaston at the Abbaye 21
Letter from a forqat 22
Sergeant Herbuel 23
Execution of Guth 24
Andre Chopart 25
First letter from Chopart 25
Second letter from Chopart 30
Chopart's letter from Guiana 32
Last letter from Chopart 33
CHAPTER III.
PRIEST'S WORK IN PARIS.
Patronage labours 35
First Paschal Retreat 36
Cercles Catholiques 38
The boys in the Rue Cassette 39
Letter from Mgr. de Conny 40
Illness 42
Examen of Conscience 43
Rule of life 44
The Reponses 46
A First Check 46
The lost M. S. 47
The 'Little Readings' 48
The Swedish Artist 49
Family Ministrations 51
Letter to the Marquis on his marriage 52
CHAPTER IV.
IN ROME.
View of the Coup d'Etat 55
Office of Auditor of the Rota 56
Appointment offered to Gaston 57
Audience with the President 58
Letter to Mgr. de Conny 59
The Abbe Gibert's postscript 60
A workman's letter 60
M. de Segur goes to Rome 61
Mgr. de Merode 62
Mgr. Bastide 63
Work among the soldiers 64
A soldier's letter 65
M. Klingenhofifen 66
Evenings at the Palazzo Brancadoro 68
At the Schools of the Christian Brothers 69
Two Seminarians 69
Pictures illustrating the Beatitudes 70
CHAPTER V.
THE VATICAN, THE TUILERIES AND SAINT SULPICE.
Events in France 71
Private audience with Pius IX. 72
The Organic Articles 74
The Roman Liturgy restored at Saint Sulpice 75
Letter from the Superior 78
The Emperor and the Catechism 80
Loss of one eye 81
The Blessed Sacrament in Mgr. de Segur's Chapel 83
His spirit of resignation 84
Total blindness 87
Letter to Mgr. Pie 88
Mgr. de Segur's view of his blindness 89
Hopes of his friends 91
Letter from his Grandmother 92
Return to Rome 93
Death of a cousin 94
The Pope at the Cholera Hospital 95
Letter from Mgr. Bastide 95
Cross of the Legion of Honour 97
CHAPTER VI.
APOSTOLATE IN PARIS.
Return to Paris 99
Canonry of Saint-Denys 99
Letter to M. Diringer 100
Methol 101
Letter to him 102
The house in the Rue du Bac 103
Order of Life 104
Patronage of the Rue de Grenelle 106
Mgr. de Segur and the Artistes 108
The children's Conference 109
Athanase Rousselle 110
Dangers and Temptations 111
Ecclesiastical Vocations 112
Advice on Vocations 113
The Clerics of Saint-Sulpice 114
Association of St. Francis de Sales 115
Growth of the Work 117
Visit to Annecy 118
CHAPTER VII.
MISSION-WORK AND TRIALS.
CEuvre of the Faubourgs 120
The First Mission 121
Success of the Work 122
What might have been 124
Visit to M. Dupont 125
Visit to Ars 126
M. Vianney and Methol 127
The blessings of a Cross 127
Sabine de Segur and her Community 128
CEuvre of the Sanctuary-lamps 129
Restoration of the Church of Aube 129
A confession of sacrilege 130
Reparation 130
The anniversary of the sacrilege 131
Mgr. Darboy 132
Interview with the Archbishop 132
Suspension 134
The question settled 134
Letter from the Marquis 135
A tract placed on the Index 137
Submission 137
Extract from Mgr. de Mermillod's funeral oration 138
CHAPTER VIII.
LABOURS FOR THE SICK AND THE ARMY.
Mgr. de Segur a tertiary of St. Francis 139
The Brothers of St. John of God 139
Pierre Sazy 140
The House at Vaugirard 141
Illness and cure of Madame de Segur 142
The Freemason 142
Cure of a blind child 144
The Vatican Council 145
Some remarkable coincidences 146
Letter to the Seminarians of Montmorillon 147
Mgr. de Segur writes to the Count de Chambord 148
The Abbe Diringer and the German prisoners 148
In Paris after the Commune 149
Last visit to Les Nouettes 150
CEuvre de l'Alsace-Lorraine 150
Military Chaplains 152
Fruit in Paris 153
Death of Madame de Segur 154
A new CEuvre 155
Letter to the Congress of Angers 156
CHAPTER IX.
LAST DAYS.
Trials and Consolations 158
Friendship with Gounod 159
Death of the Bishop of Poitiers 160
First attack of congestion 161
Rest in Brittany 162
The second warning 162
The Last Mass 163
Partings with his family 165
The death-bed of an Apostle 165
Farewell to friends 166
Working to the last 167
M. Ingigliardi 167
Death of Mgr. de Segur 168
A devoted Physician 168
The Abbe Diringer's Mass 169
The funeral Cortege 170
The Churchyard of Pluneret 170
The epitaph 171
Graces and cures 171
Mgr. de Segur's Will 173

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Internet Archive
GastonDeSegur
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