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Église Saint-Charles
Église Saint-Charles is a Roman Catholic church in Marseille, France. It is served by the Société des missionnaires de la miséricorde divine. It was the church where Marcel Pagnol Marcel Paul Pagnol (, also ; ; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the . Pagnol is generally regarded as one of France's ... was secretly baptised.https://tourisme-marseille.com/en/fiche/saint-charles-church-marseille/ References Roman Catholic churches in Marseille {{RC-church-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization. O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 ''sui iuris'' (autonomous) churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and eparchies around the world, each overseen by one or more bishops. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the chief pastor of the church. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The Catholic Church teaches that it is the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church founded by Jesus Christ in his Great Commission, that its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles, and that the pope is the successor of Saint Peter, upo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marseille
Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the Provence region, it is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. Marseille is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, second-most populous city proper in France, after Paris, with 873,076 inhabitants in 2021. Marseille with its suburbs and exurbs create the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, with a population of 1,911,311 at the 2021 census. Founded by Greek settlers from Phocaea, Marseille is the oldest city in France, as well as one of Europe's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited settlements. It was known to the ancient Greeks as ''Massalia'' and to ancient Romans, Romans as ''Massilia''. Marseille has been a trading port since ancient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Société Des Missionnaires De La Miséricorde Divine
The Society of the Missionaries of the Divine Mercy (french: ''Société des Missionnaires de la Miséricorde Divine'') is a Roman Catholic French Religious Order dedicated to Eucharistic adoration and evangelising among Muslims. The order was founded in 2005 in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, by Fabrice Loiseau, priest of the Fraternity of Saint Peter. The order's charism consists in spreading the devotion of the Divine Mercy (revealed by Christ to Saint Faustina Kowalska), celebrating the Eucharist in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (in the spirit of Benedict XVI's ''Summorum Pontificum'') and taking active part in the New Evangelisation, specially among muslims. In 2024 it was suspended from celebrating new ordinations. This was because the order asked the ordinations to be in the Tridentine Mass, and that their newly ordained priest be granted the faculties to celebrate this rite, which the order uses almost exclusively. However, after a "confident ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Pagnol
Marcel Paul Pagnol (, also ; ; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the . Pagnol is generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for the fact that he excelled in almost every medium—memoir, novel, drama and film. Early life Pagnol was born on 28 February 1895 in Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône department, in southern France near Marseille, the eldest son of schoolteacher Joseph Pagnol and seamstress Augustine Lansot.Castans (1987), pp. 363–368 He was secretly baptised at the Église Saint-Charles in Marseilles. Marcel Pagnol grew up in Marseille with his younger brothers Paul and René, and younger sister Germaine. School years In July 1904, the family rented the ''Bastide Neuve'', – a house in the sleepy Provençal village of La Treille – for the summer holidays, the first of many spent in the hilly countryside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
