biography
| name: |
Mazenod, Eugène de, St
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pronunciation:
[mazuhnoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1782–1861)
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| biography:
| Prelate, born in Aix-en-Provence, SE France. He founded the order of the Oblate Missionaries of Immaculate Mary in 1816, specializing in missions to Oceania and the Arctic regions. He became Bishop of Marseille (1837), and was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1995. |
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