Important Figures in The Movement
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- Cardinal Pierre de Bérulle (1575-1629), founder of the Oratory of Jesus in 1611
- Henri Boudon
- Jean-Jacques Olier (1608-1657), disciple of Cardinal Berulle. Olier founded the Society of St. Sulpice, in 1642, to train and form future priests
- Jeanne Chezard de Matel (1596-1670), foundress of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word in Avignon, France, in December, 1639.
- Jean Eudes, founder of the Eudists.
- St. Louis de Montfort.
- Baron de Renty
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