Charles Joseph
Charles Joseph
Bishop of Nancy and Toul, born Paris, France , 1785 ; died near Marseilles, France , 1844 . Sacrificing a political career under Napoleon, he became a priest in 1811 , and with Abbe de Rauzan founded the Missionaries of France . He was raised to the episcopate, 1824 , but had to leave France , as he refused to sign the Gallican declaration of 1682 . At the request of Bishop Flaget and Bishop Purcell, he was sent by Gregory XVI on a successful missionary tour through the United States and Canada , 1839 -1841 , and in 1842 went to Rome, where he was made a Roman count and Assistant at the Pontifical Throne. The following year he returned to France and founded the Association of the Holy Childhood.