Blessed Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier (1832-1916) was born in Orleans, France on the feast of the Immaculate Conception. Working for the revival of the Order of Preachers, he served as Novice Master, Prior, Provincial, and eventually as the seventy-sixth Master of the Order. He founded the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, known as the "Angelicum," and his biographies of Bl. Raymund of Capua and Alexander Jandel are notable among his many writings.