JANUARY 12 BLESSED PIER FRANCESCO JAMET

PRAYER

O Lord, you said: "Everything you will do to the least of my brothers, you have done to me", grant us also to imitate the ardent charity towards the poor and handicapped of your priest Pietro Francesco Jamet, father of the needy, and grant us the favors that we humbly ask you through his intercession. Amen.

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father

Pierre-François Jamet (Le Fresne-Camilly, 12 September 1762 - Caen, 12 January 1845) was a French presbyter, restorer of the congregation of the Daughters of the Good Savior and inventor of a method for the education of deaf-mutes. Pope John Paul II proclaimed him blessed in 1987.

He studied theology and philosophy at the University of Caen and continued his training at the local seminary of the eudists: he was ordained a priest in 1787.

He served as spiritual director of the Daughters of the Good Savior and continued to clandestinely exercise his ministry during the revolutionary period.

After the concordat of 1801 he reorganized the Daughters of the Good Savior (for this reason he is considered the second founder of the congregation).

In 1815 he began to devote himself to the training of two deaf girls and developed a method for the education of deaf-mutes: he exhibited his method at the academy of Caen and in 1816 he opened a school for deaf-mutes entrusted to the Daughters of the Good Savior.

Between 1822 and 1830 he was rector of the university of caen.

His cause for canonization was introduced on January 16, 1975; declared venerable on March 21, 1985, he was proclaimed blessed by Pope John Paul II on May 10, 1987 (together with Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Andrea Carlo Ferrari and Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello).

His liturgical memory is celebrated on January 12th.