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Poullart des Places
‘Rereading Claude Poullart des Places’: self-discovery and paths for communion within intercultural...
‘It is from the depths of our time and our darkness, by confronting its threats and navigating its ambiguities (for they dwell within us and also define us), that we…
October 2, 2026
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Poullart des Places Novena - 2026
Living in an Intercultural Community  in the Light of Choix d’un État de VieAnniversary of Claude-François Poullart des Places (2nd October 2026) Spiritan Novena - From 23rd September to 1st…
September 13, 2026
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Fr Henri Le Floch CSSp – The Forgotten Pioneer of Poullart Studies
By Eamonn Mulcahy, CSSp I have always found it intriguing, indeed perplexing, that for virtually the first two hundred years of Spiritan history very little was ever published in our…
October 2, 2025
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Poullart de Places Novena 2025
Spirituality and the Spiritan mission: sources of inspiration for Lay SpiritanThe preparation of this novena, in anticipation of the feast day of our founder, the Servant of God Claude Poullart…
September 23, 2025
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Poullart de Places Novena 2024
WELCOMING THE WORD OF GODFrom October 2024 to October 2026, as part of the second phase of animation proposed during its mandate and centred on a renewal in Spiritan spirituality,…
September 23, 2024
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Novena de Poullart des Places 2023
175º aniversário da “união” das Congregações do Espírito Santo e do Sagrado Coração de Maria (1848-2023)No âmbito da atual fase do Plano de Animação do Conselho Geral, esta novena é…
September 23, 2023
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Novena Poullart des Places 2022
Poullart des Places and mission“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation” (Mk 16:15) These words of Jesus remind us of the definitive sending of the…
September 23, 2022
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Poullart des Places Novena 2021
Walking in the path of virtues In the Footsteps of Claude-François Poullart des PlacesWhy a novena on the virtues of Poullart des Places? On June 12, 2010, Fr. Jean Savoie…
September 23, 2021
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Novena Poullart des Places 2019
Compiled by the Scholasticate Poullart des Places of Ngoya (UCSAC) To follow Jesus Christ, the missionary par excellence, meditation on the life of Fr. Claude-Francois Poullart des Places, is the…
September 23, 2019
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Novena Poullart des Places 2018
September 23, 2018
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Novena of Poullart des Places 2017
Community life: basis, strength and principle of our mission Since the beginning of the history of salvation, God chose people not just as individuals but as members of a community.…
September 27, 2017
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Novena Poullart des Places 2016
In the United States province, much of the early apostolate was in ministry among African-Americans. While our educational works and mission "ad-extra" continued, identification of ministry in the Southern and…
September 23, 2016
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Novena Poullart des Places 2015
September 23, 2015
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Novena Poullart des Places 2014
East Winds‘The Spiritan charism is a gift that shines through the lives of our founders and other Spiritans, a gift which touches and enriches us. It challenges us to be…
September 23, 2014
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Novena Poullart des Places 2013
Fraternal greetings from Rome as the anniversary of the death of our founder, Claude Poullart des Places, approaches. As you will recall, the General Chapter of Bagamoyo drew our attention…
September 23, 2013
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Spain
The Province launches the publication of a "Spiritan Anthology" of our founders. P. Joaquim Ramos Seixas is put in charge of the project. The aim is to give Spanish-speakers access…
July 12, 1997
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The cause of Poullart des Places is introduced by Cardinal Lustiger, the Archbishop of Paris.
October 15, 1989
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Joseph Lécuyer: Spiritan Papers no 3, 1977
Going over the writings of Poullart de Places meditatively (a thing we seem to do seldom today) and abstracting from their dated style, there comes across a sense of great…
March 6, 1977
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Charles Besnard: Life of Grignon de Montfort
As soon as it was known in Paris that he was seriously ill, a great number of persons distinguished by their piety and their rank came to see him: the…
October 2, 1900
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Charles Besnard : Life of Grignon de Montfort
While M. des Places devoted himself entirely to the cares demanded by his nascent community and exhausted himself by austere mortifications, he suffered an attack of pleurisy that was accompanied…
October 1, 1900
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Poullart des Places: General and Special Rules for the Community of the...
All the seminarians will adore the Holy Spirit in a special way because they have been consecrated to Him. They will also have a devotion to the Blessed Virgin, under…
September 22, 1900
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Prayer of the Seminaire du Saint-Esprit as reported by Nicolas Warnet
Holy Mary, my mother and my queen, humbly kneeling at your feet I beg for your help. Help me, your servant, to dedicate myself to your Spouse, the Holy Spirit,…
August 30, 1900
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Memoire of Pierre Thomas: Prayer of Poullart des Places
Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore you through your holy grace with all my heart, all my soul and all my strength. I beg you to…
August 17, 1900
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Charles Besnard: Life of Grignon de Montfort
Claude Poullart des Places felt that God wanted to use him for staffing his sanctuary with teachers and guides. He also understood that in order to succeed, he could do…
July 29, 1900
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Memoire of Pierre Thomas in Claude Poullart des Places
How often he was observed doing what seemed most humiliating in the eyes of those who knew him best when it was a matter of provid-ing for the needs of…
July 22, 1900
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Pierre Thomas: Memoire sur la Vie de Poullart des Places
Before his conversion, M. des Places found it impossible to live on the allowance he was given; after his conversion, he found it was enough not just for his own…
June 30, 1900
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Claude Poullart des Places: "Reflections of the Truths of Religion"
You always deal kindly with me as if you were in need of me. It is as if you glory in subjugating a heart as insensitive as mine. You seem…
June 15, 1900
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Charles Besnard: Vie de Grignon de Montfort
They (the products of the Seminaire du Saint-Esprit) consecrate themselves preferably to missionary activity both foreign and domestic, offering to go and stay in the poorest and most abandoned places…
June 9, 1900
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Poullart des Places, quoted by Pierre Thomas in his "Mémoire sur la...
I felt God's blessings visibly in my eagerness to approach the Blessed Sacrament. Although I was fortunate enough to receive communion frequently, I did not yet receive it as often…
June 2, 1900
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Séan Farragher in Memoire Spiritaine devoted to Poullart des Places p. 162.
The first Mass of Claude (who had been ordained on 17.12.1707) must have been a big event, too large to have taken place in the property of rue Rollin. We…
May 21, 1900
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Nazaire Diatta: Memoire Spiritaine on Poullart des Places, p. 219
For me, the most striking thing about his (Poullart) spirituality is that he followed the path of the rich young man but in the opposite direction! In contrast to the…
May 17, 1900
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Charles Besnard: Life of Grignon de Montfort
Claude began by renting a room in the rue des Cordiers near the College and gathered there the poor students whom he had already been helping before and whose dispositions…
May 13, 1900
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J. Michel: Mémoire Spiritaine, Etudes et Documents no. 4, p. 113
From his childhood, Claude Poullart des Places had a great concern for the poor. He was convinced 'that their souls were no less dear to Jesus than those of the…
May 4, 1900
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Claude Poullart des Places: Fragments from a personal Rule
Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Spirit, whom I adore with all my heart, with all my soul, with all my strength, I beg you to grant me faith, humility, chastity…
April 30, 1900
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Pierre Thomas: Mémoire sur la Vie de Claude Poullart des Places
Regarding the subject of his meditations, the first was his own sins. This is how he normally started to pray and he often spent the whole time he had set…
April 9, 1900
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Words of Poullart des Places, recorded by Charles Besnard in his Life...
You know that for some time now I have been using all that I have to help poor seminarians pursue their studies. I know several who are excellent subjects but…
April 5, 1900
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Poullart des Places: Fragments of a personal rule
O God, who leads people towards the heavenly Jerusalem when they put all their trust in you, I want to abandon myself entirely to your divine providence; I put aside…
April 2, 1900
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J. Michel: Memoire Spiritaine no. 4, p. 99
In the house of Poullart des Places, poverty is less of a necessity than a mystique. His spiritual poverty led him not just to accept but to love and seek…
March 30, 1900
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Charles Besnard: Life of L-M Grignon de Montfort
The father of Claude Poullart des Places decided that his son should be a member of the parliament of Brittany and Mme. des Places bought the necessary clothes for that…
March 18, 1900
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Pierre Thomas, Memoires, c 1730
The aim of M. des Places and his successors in establishing the Seminaire du Saint-Esprit is to train priests who are hardworking, capable and unselfish, ready to fill the most…
March 11, 1900
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Ch. Besnard : Vie de Grignon de Montfort
M. Claude-François Poullart des Places, to whom the Seminaire du Saint-Esprit owes its existence, came from a very ancient family of Brittany in the diocese of Saint-Brieuc. He was born…
February 26, 1900
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Poullart des Places: Reflections on the Truths of Religion
Lord, you were looking for me and I was running away. You gave me reason but I refused to use it. How loveable you are, my saving God! You do…
February 16, 1900
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J. Michel in Spiritus, October 1959
The basic work of Claude Poullart des Places was that of the \"Poor Scholars\". He certainly showed a great concern for the material and spiritual poverty of these young clerics…
February 6, 1900
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Poullart des Places: "Reflections on the Past"
God is full of a tender love for me and is anxious that I should not get lost; he arranged for me to do this retreat when nothing was further…
January 20, 1900
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From the first Spiritan Rule, 1734, n°2
The end of the Congregation is to form "poor clerics" in zeal for the principles of the Church and love of virtues, above all, those of obedience and poverty, so…
January 17, 1900
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Poullart des Places: Reflections on the Past
I wanted to arrive at a situation where, having given everything away, I would just live on charity. I wanted to keep nothing apart from my health so that I…
January 12, 1900
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Poullart des Places, Retreat 1701
I am searching for God. He has given me life for the purpose of serving him faithfully. The world would never bring me any reward for being attached to it:…
January 8, 1900
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The death of Claude-François Poullart des Places. He has appointed M. Jacques Garnier as his successor. The following day, he is buried in the common grave for poor clergy at…
October 2, 1709
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