Michael Garicoits was a 19th-century French Basque priest and religious founder. Born in 1797, he dedicated his ministry to combating Jansenism within his parish and promoting devotion to the Sacred Heart and the Eucharist. After working as a teacher and preacher, he established the Society of Priests of the Sacred Heart of Bétharram in 1838. He spent much of his later life caring for the Marian shrine at Bétharram, where he eventually died in 1863. He was canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church in 1947.