Michel Garicoïts
Founder of Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Bétharram
Michel Garicoïts was a French Basque Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Bétharram. He combated Jansenism in his parish due to the threat that it posed to the faith. Wikipedia
Born: April 15, 1797, Saint-Just-Ibarre, France
Died: May 14, 1863 (age 66 years), Lestelle-Bétharram, France