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Silas Francis Marean Chatard (1834–1918) was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Indianapolis in the United States.He was born Francis Chatard in Baltimore Maryland on December 13 1834. Raised in a prominent family in Baltimore he attended Mount Saint Mary’s College (now Mount Saint Mary’s University) receiving a doctorate in medicine.Soon afterward he received a revelation and began studying at the College of the Propaganda at Rome to become a priest.