Paul Mulla or Monseigneur

Monseigneur

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 Paul (name prior to conversion; Mollazade Mehmed Ali) was a Turkish Cretan who, after having been a fervent Muslim

Muslim

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 in his youth, had converted to the Roman Catholic Church

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 and baptised

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 in 1905, to the great sorrow of his father İbrahim Pertev, and was ordained priest in 1913. He was a disciple, and then the godson

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, of Maurice Blondel

Maurice Blondel

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. He was the priest entrusted by the Pope Pius XI with the undertaking of Islamic Studies at the Pontifical Oriental Institute

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. He wrote a book on his spiritual journey. He died in 1959.