Charles-Félix Cazeau (24 December 1807 – 26 February 1881) was a French Canadian priest and administrator of the

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who was prominently involved in the relief of victims from the Great Irish Famine (1845-1849).Charles-Félix Cazeau
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article Cazeau began his classical education in 1819 at

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. He studied at the

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which had been recently founded by Bishop

Joseph-Octave Plessis Joseph-Octave Plessis (March 3, 1763 – December 4, 1825) was a Canadians, Canadian Catholic Church, Roman Catholic clergyman from Quebec. He was the first archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec after the diocese was elevated to ...

and one of his teachers was a future archbishop of the Archdiocese of Quebec,

Charles-François Baillargeon Charles-François Baillargeon (; April 26, 1798 – October 13, 1870) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and archbishop. Biography He was from Lower Canada and studied at the Collège de Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud and Collège de N ...

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