Michael Levadoux

Michael Levadoux (1746–1815) was a French Sulpician, one of those who left France during the French Revolution. He went to the United States and founded St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore.

Life Levadoux was born on April 1, 1746 at Clermont-Ferrand, in Auvergne, France. He studied theology at the Sulpician Seminary at Clermont beginning on October 30, 1769. He spent one year at "Solitude", or Sulpician novitiate. He was the director of the Grand séminaire de Limoges from 1774 to 1791. as the assistant pastor. In 1801, Nagot recalled Levadoux to Baltimore.

In 1803, Levadoux received orders from Emery to return to France, where he was soon appointed superior of the Seminary of St. Flour in Auvergne, and remained there until the dispersion of the Sulpicians by Napoleon I, in 1811. When their institute was revived, in 1814, Duclaux, successor of Emery, placed Levadoux at the head of the Seminary of Le-Puy-en-Velay.

Levadoux died at Le-Puy-en-Velay on January 13, 1815.