The holy places of France · Île-de-France
Issy-les-Moulineaux The Seminary of Saint-Sulpice
Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France
- Getting there
- Metro line 12 or the RER C, about twenty minutes from the center of Paris.
- On our way
- Via Incarnationis
History
Jean-Jacques Olier, parish priest of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, founded a seminary in 1642 to train priests in prayer and study, at a time when many were ordained with little preparation. In the 1650s his Society of Saint-Sulpice took a country house at Issy, just southwest of Paris, and the seminary of Saint-Sulpice still trains priests there.
Olier belonged to the generation that renewed the French clergy after the Council of Trent, with Vincent de Paul, Pierre de Bérulle and John Eudes. The seminary keeps his heart, and its park has a small chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Loreto.
To see and to pray
- The heart of Jean-Jacques OlierKept at the seminary, where the group prays by arrangement.
- The chapel of Our Lady of LoretoIn the park of the seminary.
On our way
Getting there
Metro line 12 or the RER C, about twenty minutes from the center of Paris.
Nearby
- Ivry-sur-SeineThe House of Madeleine Delbrêl, about 5 miles as the crow flies
- Saint-DenisThe Basilica of Saint-Denis, about 9 miles as the crow flies
- Noisy-le-GrandNotre-Dame-des-Sans-Logis, about 13 miles as the crow flies
- PontoiseThe Carmel of Pontoise, about 17 miles as the crow flies