Jean Gailhac
French priest (1802–1890)
Jean Gailhac (13 November 1802 – 1890) was a French Roman Catholic priest. He founded the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary in 1849.
Life
Pierre Jean Antoine Gailhac was born on 13 November 1802 in Béziers, France. He entered the major seminary in Montpellier in 1821 and was ordained by Bishop Nicolas Fournier for the Diocese of Montpellier on 23 September 1826. As a young priest he taught philosophy and helped in the religious formation of the students at the seminary.
On 12 September 1828, Father Jean Gailhac was assigned as chaplain to the civil and military hospital of the city of Béziers where he met many women who suffered from illnesses which were the result of prostitution. These women were mostly uneducated and had neither family nor social support. At first, Gailhac made arrangements for many of these women to be received in a shelter in Montpellier, paying their room and board. With the help of friends, in 1834 he founded the Good Shepherd, a shelter for these women. Women started bringing Gailhac children for whom they could not longer care so an orphanage was formed in part of the building.
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