Joseph Oriol, Saint
Earned a doctorate in theology, served as a parish priest, renowned for gifts of prophecy and miracles. St. Joseph died in 1702.
Joseph Vaz, Blessed
Biographical article on this 17th-century priest from Goa who was a missionary to Sri Lanka.
Joseph, Sisters of Saint
Founded at Le Puy, in Velay, France, by the Rev. Jean-Paul Médaille of the Society of Jesus.
Joseph's Society for Colored Missions, Saint
This organization began its labours in 1871, when four young priests from Mill Hill were put in charge of St. Francis Xavier's church, with a large congregation of black Catholics,…
Joseph's Society for Foreign Missions, Saint
A society of priests and laymen whose object is to labour for the conversion of heathens in foreign countries.
Josephites
A congregation devoted to the Christian education of youth, founded in the Diocese of Ghent (Belgium) by Canon van Crombrugghe, in 1817.
Josue (Joshua)
The name of eight persons in the Old Testament, and of one of the Sacred Books.
Joubert, Joseph
French philosopher; b. at Martignac (Dordogne), 7 May, 1754, d. at Villeneuve-le-Roi (Yonne), 4 May 1824.
Jouffroy, Claude-François-Dorothée de
Mechanician, b. at Abbans, near Besançon, 30 Sept., 1751; d. at Paris, 18 July, 1832.
Jouffroy, Jean de
French prelate and statesman; b. at Luxeuil (Franche-Comté) about 1412; d. at the priory of Rulli, in the Diocese of Bourges, 24 November, 1473.
Jouin, Louis
Linguist, philosopher, author, b. at Berlin, 14 June, 1818, d. at New York, 10 June, 1899.
Jouvancy, Joseph de
Poet, pedagogue, philologist, and historian, b. at Paris, 14 September, 1643; d. at Rome, 29 May, 1719.
Jovellanos, Gaspar Melchor de
Spanish statesman and man of letters, at Gijon, Asturias, 5 Jan., 1744, d. at Puerto de Vega on the borders of Asturias, 27 Nov., 1811.
Jovinianus
An opponent of Christian asceticism in the fourth century, condemned as a heretic (390).
Jovius, Paulus
Historian, b. at Como, Italy, 9 April, 1483, d. at Florence, 11 Dec., 1552.
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