Venerable Bénigne Joly

Bénigne Joly, born in 1644 and died in 1694, was a French Catholic priest and religious writer from Dijon. This native of Dijon, sometimes called the "father of the poor" or the "Burgundian Saint Vincent de Paul," was a diocesan priest of the Diocese of Langres, which included the city of Dijon at that time. In 1873, Pope Pius IX granted him the title of "Venerable."