Meet the priest whom John Quincy Adams thought was the most learned man in America

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Born in 1779 at Rennes, France, Simon Brute lived during the tumultuous French Revolution and witnessed the open persecution of Catholic priests. He frequently visited the prisons where these men were held and often brought with him the Blessed Sacrament, hidden in his clothes. Then in 1796 Brute studied medicine, but never became a doctor...

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Meet the priest whom John Quincy Adams thought was the most learned man in America