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French scholar (1813–1853)

Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam (pronounced[ɑ̃twanfʁedeʁikozanam]; 23 April 1813 – 8 September 1853) was a French Catholic literary scholar, lawyer, journalist and equal rights advocate.

He founded with fellow students the Conference of Charity, later known as the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.^[1] He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in 1997. His feast day is 9 September.

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Life

Frédéric Ozanam was born on Friday, 23 April 1813, to Jean and Marie Ozanam.^[2] He was the fifth of 14 children, one of only three to reach adulthood.^[3] His family, which had distant Jewish connections,^[4] had been settled in the region around Lyon, France, for many centuries.

An ancestor of Frédéric, Jacques Ozanam (1640–1717), was a noted mathematician. Jean Ozanam, Frédéric's father, had served in the armies of the First French Republic, but with the rise to power