ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL
Saints celebrated on the 29th of April
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Jean-François Baillard (Johannes Franciscus Baillard) was a secular priest, born on December 6, 1775 at Chêne near Geneva. He studied at the college at Annecy, when the French Revolution broke out and destroyed all religious institutes.
Ordained a priest on March 8, 1800 by the bishop of Lausanne in Fribourg, he faithfully carried out the duties of a missionary in the vicinity of Geneva, whither he had been sent by his superiors, until peace was restored and the exiled priests returned.
Now, in 1803, Jean-François first became the official assistant to the pastor of Chêne and then, in 1816, his successor. He had a very beneficial effect on everyone around him until he finally died godly on April 29, 1854. (Burg. III .256)
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 3, Augsburg, 1869, p. 362)
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