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LAZARITES (LAZARISTS or LAZARIANS)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 313 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAZARITES (LAZARISTS or LAZARIANS) , the popular names of the " See also:Congregation of Priests of the See also:Mission " in the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church. It had its origin in the successful mission to the See also:common See also:people conducted by St See also:Vincent de See also:Paul (q.v.) and five other priests on the estates of the Gondi See also:family. More immediately it See also:dates from 1624, when the little community acquired a permanent See also:settlement in the See also:college See also:des Bons Enfans in See also:Paris. Archiepiscopal recognition was obtained in 1626; by a papal See also:bull of the 12th of See also:January 1632, the society was constituted a congregation, with St Vincent de Paul at its See also:head. About the same See also:time the canons See also:regular of St See also:Victor handed over to the congregation the priory of St See also:Lazarus (formerly a lazarhouse) in Paris, whence the name of Lazarites or Lazarists. Within a few years they had acquired another See also:house in Paris and set up other establishments throughout See also:France; See also:missions were also sent to See also:Italy (1638), See also:Tunis (1643), See also:Algiers and See also:Ireland (1646). See also:Madagascar (1648) and See also:Poland (r651). A fresh bull of See also:Alexander VII. in See also:April 1655 further confirmed the society; this was followed by a brief in See also:September of the same See also:year, regulating its constitution. The rules then adopted, which were framed on the See also:model of those of the See also:Jesuits, were published at Paris in 1668 under the See also:title Regulae seu constitutiones communes congregationis missionis. The See also:special See also:objects contemplated were the religious instruction of the See also:lower classes, the training of the See also:clergy and See also:foreign missions. During the See also:French Revolution the congregation was suppressed and St Lazare plundered by the See also:mob; it was restored by See also:Napoleon in 1804 at the See also:desire of See also:Pius VII., abolished by him in s8o9 in consequence of a See also:quarrel with the See also:pope, and again restored in 1816. The Lazarites were expelled from Italy in 1871 and from See also:Germany in 1873.

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province of Poland was singularly prosperous; at the date of its suppression in 1796 it possessed See also:thirty-five establishments. The See also:order was permitted to return in 1816, but is now See also:extinct there. In Madagascar it had a mission from 1648 till 1674. In 1783 Lazarites were appointed to take the See also:place of the Jesuits in the Levantine and See also:Chinese missions; they still have some footing in See also:China, and in 1874 their establishments through-out the See also:Turkish See also:empire numbered sixteen. In addition, they established branches in See also:Persia, See also:Abyssinia, See also:Mexico, the See also:South See also:American republics, See also:Portugal, See also:Spain and See also:Russia, some of which have been suppressed. In the same year they had fourteen establishments in the See also:United States of See also:America. The See also:total number of Lazarites throughout the See also:world is computed at about 3000. Amongst distinguished members of the congregation may be mentioned: P. Collet (1693–1770), writer on See also:theology and See also:ethics; J. de la Grive (1689–1757), geographer; E. See also:Bore (d. 1878), orientalist; P. Bertholon (1689–1757), physician; and Armand See also:David, Chinese missionary and traveller.

See Regulae seu constitutiones communes congregations missionis (Paris, 1668); Memoires de la congregation de la mission (1863); Congregation de la mission. Repertoire historigue (1900) ; Notices bihliographiques sur See also:

les ecrivains de la congregation de la mission (-'.ngouleme, 1878); P. See also:Helyot, Dict. des ordres religieux, viii. 64-77; M. Heimbrecher, See also:Die Orden and Kongregationen der katholischen Kirche, ii. (1897); C. See also:Stork in Wetzer and Welte's Kirchenlexikon (Catholic), vii.; E. Bougaud, See also:History of St Vincent de Paul (1908).

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