The Clerics of St. Viator is founded by Father Louis Querbes in France and gains a foothold in North America.
This engraving of Venerable Louis Querbes is based on a daguerrotype, now lost.
1793: Louis Querbes, founder of the Clerics of St. Viator, is born in Lyon, France
Jean-Gaston de Pins, Archbishop of Lyons, by Louis Stanislas Faivre-Duffer (lithograph after Victor Orsel), 1834
1831: Episcopal approval of the Clerics of St. Viator by Bishop Jean-Paul-Gaston de Pins of Lyon, November 30
Aerial photo of Vourles, France, early twentieth century
1831: Founding of the Province of France in Vourles
Pope Gregory XVI, Paul Delaroche, 1844
1838: Papal Approval of the Clerics of St. Viator by Pope Gregory XVI on September 21
Father Querbes wrote this letter to Brother Archirel, who was being considered for the St. Louis mission. In the end, Brothers Antoine Thibaudier, Francois-Therese Lahaye, Lignon, Pierre Pavy, Alexander McDonald, and William Shepherd made up the members of the short-lived Viatorian mission in St. Louis.
1842: First Viatorian mission established in St. Louis, MO on January 31
First page of the document of incorporation for the Clerics of St. Viator in Canada, 1849
1847: Founding of the Province of Canada
Portrait of Father Louis Querbes, Father Wilfred Corbeil, CSV
1859: Death of Father Louis Querbes on September 1 in Vourles, France
