Segur, Louis Gaston DE
Segur, Louis Gaston de
Prelate and apologist. Born in Paris, France in 1820; died there in 1881. Of distinguished family, he left the diplomatic service to enter the priesthood and devoted himself to the poor of Paris. For four years he was auditor of the Rota at Rome; he then lost his eyesight and returned to Paris. The honors of the episcopate were conferred upon him without the title. He founded the Saint Francis de Sales Society for the defense of the faith, and wrote many apologetic and devotional books in a popular style, which had a large circulation in English.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Segur, Louis Gaston DE
a French prelate, was born at Paris in 1820. In 1856 he was made canon of the chapter of St. Denis, and died in 1881. Segur was one of the most active and influential members of the clerical party, unjust towards the Protestants, and a promoter of ultramontane ideas. He published, La Piete et la Vie Intrieure (1863-64, 4 volumes): Instructions Familiares et Lectures du Soir sur Toutes les Verites de la Religion (1865, 2 volumes): La Liberte (1869): Le Dogme de Infallibilite (1872): Le Jeune Ouvrier Chretien (1876), etc. See Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v. (B.P.)