Gabriel Deshayes
Gabriel Deshayes
Founder and reorganizer of religious congregations, born Beignon, France , 1767 ; died Saint Laurent-sur-Sevre, France , 1842 . Educated at Saint Malo, he was ordained during the Revolution, and was later named Vicar-General of Vannes. He founded the Sisters of Christian Teaching and Nursing of Saint Gildas (1807 ) and the Brothers of Saint Francis of Assisi called “farming brothers” (1841 ), and he reorganized the Company of Mary (1821 ) and the Brothers of Saint Gabriel (1835 ). He held, moreover, at different periods, the office of superior general of the Missionaries of the Holy Ghost, the Daughters of Wisdom , and the Saint Gabriel Brothers .