Dominique Salhorgne

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Father Dominique Salhorgne

Dominique Salhorgne (born September 4, 1757 in Toul , † May 25, 1836 in Paris ) was a Catholic priest , Lazarist father , superior general of his order and full professor of theology at the University of Heidelberg .

Historical background

On August 21, 1773, Pope Clement XIV repealed the Jesuit order with the bull “Dominus ac redemptor noster” . Since he was very meritorious in pastoral care in the Electoral Palatinate , held chairs at Heidelberg University, ran several Latin schools and the Mannheim observatory , Elector Karl Theodor was looking for a congregation to succeed him. Here he decided on the Lazarist order founded by St. Vincent de Paul . On November 7, 1781, Elector Karl Theodor, on the recommendation of his court chaplain Nicolas Maillot de la Treille , ordered the establishment of this community in the Electoral Palatinate and transferred all the possessions and rights of the previous Jesuits to it. As the first local provincial he appointed a son of his country, Father Johann Wilhelm Theobald . After the congregation in France had already been smashed by the revolutionary events, the last Electoral Palatinate Lazarist superior Pierre Antoine Saligot (1749–1793) died in 1793 and this branch of the order also went under. It was not until 1827 that a superior general of the order could be elected again, whose direct successor was Salhorgne.

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Dominique Salhorgne

Dominique Salhorgne came from Toul in Lorraine and joined the Lazarists on October 27, 1772, in Paris. In 1775 he made his profession . After completing his theological studies, he was sent to Chartres to teach philosophy. In 1780 he was ordained a priest and continued to work in schools of his order.

On April 21, 1784, he was appointed professor of moral theology at the University of Heidelberg for the late Ludwig Rompell . Salhorgne held this position until 1786; From 1787 to 1790 he taught at the seminary of Saintes .

In 1793 the priest had to flee France. He first returned to Heidelberg and stayed in Germany until 1802. He earned his living by teaching, where he came to Saxony.

In October 1802 Dominique Salhorgne went back to his homeland and took over a parish in Toul. He was then transferred to the diocese of Nancy , where he remained until 1814. Finally, Archbishop Jean-Baptiste du Chilleau appointed him to the Grand Seminary of Tours and he worked there from 1814 to 1827; since 1824 he also acted as vicar general of the archdiocese.

From 1827, Pierre-Joseph Dewailly was again a general of the Lazarists and Dominique Salhorgne returned to the service of his congregation at his request. He was appointed director and leader of the female branch of the order, the daughters of Christian love .

In 1829 he was elected general superior of the general order, which function he held until 1835. In that year he resigned for health reasons and died in 1836. During his tenure, Salhorgne managed to transfer the relics of the founder of the order St. Vincent de Paul to the new main church of the Lazarists, Chapelle Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, 95 Rue de Sèvres in Paris Under him the apparitions of Mary to the later canonized member of the order Catherine Labouré took place and in 1832 the first minting of the Miraculous Medal, which is now widely used worldwide . He succeeded in consolidating the order again and sending missionaries to China and the Levant , including St. John Gabriel Perboyre , whom he adopted himself in 1835.

literature

  • Alban Haas : The Lazarists in the Electoral Palatinate , Pilgerdruckerei, Speyer 1960, p. 62
  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon: 1652–1802 , Springer-Verlag, 2013, p. 132 u. 133 (digital scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dominik Burkard: Oasis in an Enlightenment Addicted Time: The Catholic Theological Faculty of Heidelberg University between the Belated Counter Reformation, Enlightenment and Church Reform , Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1995, p. 225, ISBN 3-7995-3238-2 ; (Detail scan)
  2. ^ Website on the Lazarists in Heidelberg
  3. ^ Ludwig Rompell in the Portal Thesaurus
  4. ↑ Chapelle Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris in the French Wikipedia
  5. ↑ Fr. Joseph I. Dirvin: Saint Catherine Laboré of the Miraculous Medal , TAN Books, 2015, ISBN 1-5051-0329-0 , without page numbers, (digital scan )
  6. ^ Johann Peter Stollenwerk: Life of the Venerable Martyr Johann Gabriel Perboyre, Priest of the Congregation of Mission , Part 1, p. 105, Regensburg, 1863 (digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Salhorgne, Dominique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salhorgne, Dominic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French clergyman, superior general of the order of the Lazarists and professor of theology at the University of Heidelberg
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Toul
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1836
Place of death Paris