Francis Charles Nagot Explained

Francis Charles Nagot (1734–1816) was a French Roman Catholic priest, who worked for the Society of Saint-Sulpice. He is perhaps most famous for founding two Catholic teaching establishments in Baltimore, USA.

He was born at Tours on April 19, 1734. He joined the congregation of the priests of Saint-Sulpice. He gained a doctorate in theology from the University of Nantes^[1] and was sent as professor of theology to the Seminary of Nantes. He was made superior of the small seminary,^[2] then director of the large seminary.

The French Revolution led to his travelling to the US in 1791 and establishing St. Mary's, the first Catholic seminary and college in Baltimore.^{[3] [4]} He died at Baltimore on April 9, 1816.^[5]

Publications

• Relation de la conversion de quelques Protestants (1791)
• La Doctrine de l'Ecriture sur les miracles (1808, a translation of an English work by George Hay)
• Vie de, M. Olier, cure de Saint-Suilpice (1813)

and several translations of works of English piety.

External links

DePaul University website, In God's Time (Chapter 7) (Elizabeth Seton)

Notes and References

1. https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/nagot-francis-charles Encyclopedia website, Nagot, Francois Charles
2. https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/2801 Colonial Society of Massachusetts website, Meeting of January 1923, (Volume 25: Transactions, 1922-1924)
3. http://sulpicians.org/wp-content/uploads/2016-2-Summer-Update.pdf Sulpicians website, Summer 2016 newsletter, page 11
4. https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/pnp/habshaer/md/md0100/md0145/data/md0145data.pdf Library of Congress website, Written Historical and Descriptive Data, District of Maryland; St. Mary's Seminary Chapel, page 4
5. https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/N/nagot-francois-charles.html Biblical Cyclopedia website, Nagot, Francois Charles