Julien Loriot, Cong.Orat. (1633–19 February 1715), was a
French priest of the
Oratory of Jesus
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and theologian.
Loriot was born in the town of
Laval, then in the ancient province of
Maine
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. In 1654, at the age of 21, he joined a local Oratorian community, where he spent the next 40 years. At that point, he became an itinerant preacher in the rural regions of northern France.
Loriot became a noted preacher. Many of his sermons were recorded and published.
Loriot finally arrived in Paris, when he joined the noted Oratory on the
Rue Saint-Honoré
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It is named after the collegial situated in ancient times within the cloisters of Saint-Honoré.
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. It was there that he died.
1633 births
1715 deaths
People from Laval, Mayenne
French Oratory
18th-century French Roman Catholic priests
17th-century French Roman Catholic priests
Sermon writers
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