Antoine Baud

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Pastor Antoine Baud as protonotary 1866, painting by Johann Friedrich Dietler in the church of St. Peter and Paul

Antoine Baud (born September 16, 1805 in Chêne-Thônex , † May 7, 1867 in Bern ) was a Swiss Roman Catholic priest. During his tenure in Bern he rebuilt the parish and managed to build the first Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul (Bern) .

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Antoine Baud was born as the son of Joseph Baud and Jeannette Baud. Dunoyer was born in Chêne-Thônex, (today Chêne-Bourg and Thônex ). He attended the grammar school and seminary in the college of St. Michael in Freiburg . In 1830 he was ordained a priest in Freiburg by Bishop Tobias Jenni and received his first position as vicar in Geneva. From 1831 to 1832 he was vicar under Pastor Christoph Anton Tschann and then, as his successor, pastor in Bern until 1867. With donated funds, he was able to buy a house on Metzgergasse (today Rathausgasse ) in Bern, where a parsonage and the newly founded Catholic school were set up. In years of domestic and foreign collecting activities, he raised a capital of around 600,000 francs and made it possible to build his own church near Bern's town hall. From 1842, Baud was also responsible for the newly created community in Interlaken . His striving for recognition of the Catholic denomination in the canton of Bern was granted a temporary success with the building of the church in Bern.

Attacks on Catholic confession prompted Baud to publish an apologetic study on the Sacrament of the Sacrament in 1854: L'Orthodoxie de la confession sacramentelle , in German: The Orthodoxy of Sacramental Confession .

The great burden as a pastor of a growing congregation, in the constant fight against political resistance and the concern about the constantly increasing construction costs for the church, led to a heart disease which increased over several years, from which he died on May 7, 1867. A few days earlier he was able to attend the primacy of a young priest whom he himself had baptized and seen growing up in his community. He was buried in a crypt in the crypt of his church with great sympathy. A painting in the Church of St. Peter and Paul by Johann Friedrich Dietler shows him in the robes of the Protonotary in 1866, a few months before his death.

Antoine Baud's tomb in the crypt of the Church of St. Peter and Paul

The Latin inscription on the grave slab reads:

RD ANTONIUS BAUD

EX CHENE GEBENNENSIS

PROTONOT. APOSTOL. DECAN

XXXV. ANNIS PASTOR BONUS

ECCL. CATH. CIVIT. BERNENSIS

BASILICAE EXSTR. INDEFESS.

DE RELI. ET REP. BENE MERIT

INGENS SVI DESIDER. RELINQ.

ANNOS NAT. LXII.

OBIIT VII. MAJI MDCCCLXVII.

RIP

Honors

  • Appointment as dean by the Bishop of Lausanne
  • In 1865 Pope Pius IX awarded him . the honorary title of apostolic protonotary with the right to celebrate episcopally with miter and staff on certain days .

Works

  • Antoine Baud: L'orthodoxie de la confession sacramentelle . Imprimerie de J. Bonvalot, Besançon 1856, p. 382 . online in French
  • Antoine Baud: L'orthodoxie de la confession sacramentelle . Nabu Press, City / Country Charleston SC, United States 2011, ISBN 1-271-40358-7 , pp. 408 . Reproduction, French and English
  • Antoine Baud: Pastor Baud's report on the construction of a Catholic church in Bern, 1853 . J. Gassmann, son, 1853, p. 17 . on-line

literature

  • Josef Emil Nünlist: The cath. Church in the Bern area . Self-published, Bern 1941, p. 10-12 .
  • On the grave of Monsignor Baud . In: Swiss Church Newspaper . tape 1867 , no. 20, 22 , 1867, pp. 184-186, 204-206 ( e-periodica.ch ). online at: E-Periodica

Web links

Commons : Antoine Baud  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antoine Baud: Pastor Baud's report on the creation of a Catholic church in Bern, 1853 . J. Gassmann, son, 1853, p. 17 . on-line
  2. ^ Antoine Baud: L'orthodoxie de la confession sacramentelle . Imprimerie de J. Bonvalot, Besançon 1856, p. 382 . online in French
  3. ↑ On the grave of Monsignor Baud . In: Swiss Church Newspaper . tape 1867 , no. 22 , 1867, p. 204–206 ( e-periodica.ch ). on: E-Periodica
  4. ↑ Ernst Simonet et al .: 150 years of Roman Cath. Community of Bern - 50 years of the Holy Trinity Church . Parish office of the Trinity Church, Bern 1949, p. 69-71 .
personal data
SURNAME Baud, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Roman Catholic priest
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Chêne-Thônex
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1867
Place of death Bern