Jean-Francois Landriot

Career

At Reims, besides preaching many Advent and Lenten stations, he raised a large subscription for the pontifical army, established several educational institutions, founded an asylum for the aged, and entrusted Saint Walfroy to the Priests of the Mission. Lacroix ("Manager Landriot pendant l"occupation allemande", Reims, 1898) shows Landriot"s influence in allaying the measure of rigor resorted to by the victorious Germans during their occupation of Reims in 1870. In the question of the ancient classics Landriot refused to subscribe to the extreme views of Jean-Joseph Gaume and L"Univers.

Achievements

• During his ten years at Louisiana Rochelle he restored the cathedral, organized the Propagation of the Faith and the Peter"s-pence collections, and won a reputation as a pulpit orator.

Membership

As a member of the First Vatican Council, he deemed inopportune the definition of papal infallibility, but, once decreed, he adhered to its promulgation and wrote to his diocesans urging them to accept lieutenant