Background
VEROT, Jean Pierre Augustin Marceliin was born on May 23, 1805 in LePuy, France, United States. Son of Jean-Pierre Augustin Marceliin Verot and his wife Magdeleine (Marcet).
VEROT, Jean Pierre Augustin Marceliin was born on May 23, 1805 in LePuy, France, United States. Son of Jean-Pierre Augustin Marceliin Verot and his wife Magdeleine (Marcet).
University graduate.
He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1828, as a member of the Society of St. Sulpice. He attended the college of Annoney and the ecclesiastical seminary of Issy in the 1820s. In 1830, he was sent to Baltimore, Maryland, where he served as a professor of mathematics at St. Mary’s College until 1852.
In 1853, he taught at St. Charles College in Baltimore and did parochial work. He was named first vicar apostolic of Florida in 1858. During the Civil War, as third bishop of Savannah, he openly defended slavery and greatly influenced Southern Catholics to support the Confederacy through his “A Tract for the Times: Slavery and Abolition” (1861).
Unlike most American bishops, who sought to avoid the sectional controversy, he favored the formation of the Confederacy, to which he was later politically committed. He encouraged the Catholics of Savannah to contribute financially to the Confederacy, and he worked hard to persuade people to accept the suffering of war. He also continued to work with the Catholic church in Florida.
Verot promoted and paid for the Pacificator, a paper which was designed to rally Southern Catholic support for the Confederacy. After the war, he was a delegate to the First Vatican Council and was named first bishop of St. Augustine, Florida, in the 1870s.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.