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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 528 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRIDAINE (or BRYDAYNE), JACQUES (1701-1767)  , See also:French See also:Roman See also:Catholic preacher, was See also:born at Chuslan in the See also:department of See also:Gard on the 21st of See also:March 1701 . He was educated at See also:Avignon, first in the Jesuit See also:college and afterwards at the Sulpician See also:seminary of St See also:Charles . Soon after his ordination to the priesthood in 1725, he joined the See also:Missions Royales, organized to bring back to the Catholic faith the Protestants of See also:France . He gained their See also:good-will and made many converts; and for over See also:forty years he visited as a missionary preacher almost every See also:town of central and See also:southern . France . In See also:Paris, in 1744, his sermons created a deep impression by their eloquence and sincerity . He died at Roquemaure, near Avignon, on the 22nd of See also:December 1767 . Ile was the author of Cantiques spiriluels (See also:Montpelier, 1948, frequently reprinted, in use in most French churches) ; his sermons were published in 5 vols. at Avignon in 1823 (ed . Paris, 1861) . See See also:Abbe G . Carron, Le Modele See also:des pretres (1803) .

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