Marie-joseph lagrange biography of george michael

Albert Lagrange was born in Bourg-en-Bresse, in the diocese of Belley-Ars, the 7th of March 1855.

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When he was three years old he received a blessing from the holy Curé d’Ars. After traditional studies in the junior Seminary of Autun, he continued his studies in Law at Paris, obtaining a Doctorate. Attracted to the ideal of St Dominic – a “pure soul” – he entered the Seminary of Issy-les-Moulineaux (1878-1879) and then the Novitiate of the Order of Preachers in St Maximin where he received the Dominican habit from the hands of the Provincial Prior, Br Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier, since beatified by Pope John Paul II.
At the end of the Novitiate in 1880 the decree of expulsion of Religious obliged all the Dominicans to leave France.

The Spanish Dominicans gave them shelter in their house of Saint Stephan in Salamanca where Brother Lagrange studied the theology of St Thomas Aquinas and the mystical doctrines of St Teresa of Avila. He was ordained priest at Zamora on the 22nd Lagrange, Marie Joseph - VOBYK