Father Julian Astromov, SJ (1820–1913) was a Russian Catholic priest. Born into a noble family of Orthodox religion. He graduated from the law faculty of

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, where he showed interest in

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. From 1845 he served in the Department of confessions. In 1846 while on vacation in Rome, Astromov joined to

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and joined the Society of Jesus. He studied philosophy in

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. In 1856 he was ordained a priest and began to teach in the various Jesuit schools, and later served as chaplain of the Polish Church of Saint Stanislaus in

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. He was author of a number of

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works on Russian language. Father Julian Astromov died in 1913.

Works

* De l'Infaillibilité, impr. de C. Voghera, 1882

* Introductio ad intelligendam doctrinam Angelici Doctoris, ex typis hospitii S. Michaelis, 1884

* Du Pouvoir temporel, impr. de l'hospice Saint-Michel, 1885

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20120425083012/http://www.alymov-spb.ru/rus_kat_ch_1_2.html * http://www.russinitalia.it/2013/dettaglio.php?id=528 Converts to Roman Catholicism Converts to Roman Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy Former Russian Orthodox Christians Roman Catholics from the Russian Empire 1820 births Jesuits from the Russian Empire 1913 deaths {{RC-clergy-stub