Excerpt from The Dawn of the Catholic Revival in England, Vol. 2 of 2: 1781-1803

Among the bishops whose sees were suppressed was one who was destined to take a leading part in connection with the reception of the exiled clergy in England - Monseigneur de la Marche, Bishop of St. Pol de Léon, a small town in Brittany near St. Malo. He was among the first to leave France, and is called by Plasse1 the Precursor. A Short account of his history and antecedents will be our best introduction to his remarkable personality.

Count Jean Frangois de la Marche was born at Quimper, in Brittany, in I 729. When a youth he was destined by his parents for a military career, and he fought in the War of the Austrian Succession. Being wounded in the battle of Piacenza, like another St. Ignatius, he forthwith determined to resign his commission, and devote himself to the service of the Church. He was ordained priest in 1 7 56, and became Bishop of St. P01 de Léon in I 772, so that he had already occupied that position nearly twenty years when in consequence of a dispute with the civil power he found himself obliged to take refuge by secret ¿ight.

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