Florent Dumontet de Cardaillac

Florent Dumontet de Cardaillac (born February 8, 1749 in Saint-Méard , † September 5, 1794 in Port-des-Barques ) was a French Roman Catholic priest and martyr. He was beatified in 1995 .

Life

Florent Dumontet (or du Montet) de Cardaillac came from a family that rose to the nobility in the 16th century and was the younger son of the Marquis de Cardaillac, Alphonse Louis Dumontet, and his wife Marcelle d'Échizadour. He was born in 1749 in Échizadour in the commune of Saint-Méard in the Haute-Vienne department . After his ordination , he was canon and vicar general of the diocese of Castres and confessor of the Count of Provence (eldest brother of King Louis XVI and later King Louis XVIII ) and his wife Maria Josepha of Savoy .

Since he did not want to take the oath to the civil constitution for the clergy, which was required by the priests after the anti-clerical reforms , he lost his offices in 1792 and retired to his family. During the reign of terror , he was arrested and interned in Limoges in 1793 . His family negotiated with the revolutionary authorities about his release, but was unsuccessful because of his proximity to the royal court. In the spring of 1794 he was deported to Rochefort with hundreds of other priests and held on the prison ship Les Deux-Associés . During his imprisonment, he took special care of the sick there in the makeshift hospital that was set up in the summer of 1794 on the then Citoyenne island off Rochefort (now Île Madame ), until on September 5, 1794 , he himself suffered the consequences of the inhuman conditions Prison conditions and his self-sacrificing work for the sick died. He was buried on the Île Madame.

Pope John Paul II beatified him in 1995 with the Rochefort Martyrs Group .

literature

• Aimé Guillon de Montléon: Art. Cardaillac, Florent Dumontel de , in: Les Martyrs de la foi pendant la révolution française, ou Martyrologe des pontifes, prêtres, religieux, religieuses, laïcs de l'un et l'autre sexe, qui périrent alors pour la foi. Volume 2. Mathiot, Paris 1821, pp. 366-367 in the Google book search