About Pierre Chaignon
Lived 1791 – 1883 (aged 91). Pierre Chaignon was a French catholic priest and catholic theologian.
Pierre Chaignon, S.J. (1791–1883) was a French Jesuit priest and spiritual writer.
Life Pierre Chaignon was born in Saint-Pierre-la-Cour, Mayenne, France, on 8 October 1791.
He was professed into the Society of Jesus on 14 August 1819 at the age of 27, and spent his life as a priest in the spiritual direction of other priests, giving an estimated three hundred retreats to French clergy over the course of thirty years. He wrote a book of spiritual meditations for priests entitled Méditationes sacerdotales and established a Union of Prayer for Deceased Priests which was canonically erected into a confraternity in 1861.
He died at Angers on 20 September 1883.
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French Jesuit writer (1791-1883)
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Pierre Chaignon was born on 8 October 1791 in Saint-Pierre-la-Cour.
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Pierre Chaignon died on 20 September 1883 in Angers.
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Pierre Chaignon was a catholic priest and catholic theologian.
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