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The Augustinians of the Assumption and Anti-Semitism The Augustinians of the Assumption was a French anti-Semitic Roman Catholic religious order which was banished from France for its attacks on the Jews and which provoked legislation that guaranteed the separation of Church and state in France. Emmanuel d’Alzon founded the Augustinians of the Assumption (Assumptionists) in 1845. The Assumptionists launched their notorious anti-Jewish newspaper La Croix in 1883. The Assumptionists were expelled from France in 1900 for their anti-Semitism and they provoked legislation that guaranteed the separation of church and state. “The 1880s marked a new era in the Assumptionists publishing arm. [...] Yet the group’s most successful publication remained its daily newspaper, La Croix, launched in 1883 and which quickly became the country’s most influential Catholic newspaper. “In the 1890s, La Croix became notorious for its vehement anti-Dreyfus, and anti-Jewish editorial policy. Proudly proclaiming itself ‘the most anti-Jewish newspaper in France,’ La Croix through its scurrilous attacks became, in part, responsible for the expulsion of the Assumptionist order from France at the beginning of the 20th century and the enacting of legislation guaranteeing the official separation of church and state in France.” Source: http://www.answers.com/topic/bayard-sa The Augustinians of the Assumption (Assumptionists) in Britain today are based in Hitchin, Hertfordshire at the church of Our Lady Immaculate and St Andrew and in Bethnal Green in London at Our Lady of the Assumption church, Assumption Priory.

Fr. Emmanuel d’Alzon founded the anti-Semitic Augustinians of the Assumption Our Lady Immaculate and St. Andrew, Hitchin Hertfordshire