Henri François-Xavier de Belsunce-Castelmoron

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Bishop Henri François-Xavier de Belsunce-Castelmoron
Belsunce statue in front of the Marseille Cathedral

Henri François-Xavier de Belsunce-Castelmoron SJ (born December 3, 1671 in the Château de La Force in Périgord , France , † June 4, 1755 in Marseille ) was a French Roman Catholic bishop of Marseille and Peer of France .

Life

Henri de Belsunce, son of the Marquis Armand Belsunce-Castelmoron, joined the Society of Jesus in 1691 and attended the seminary in Agen from 1703. Until 1706 he was Vicar of the Bishop of Agen , François Hébert .

In 1709 Henri de Belsunce was appointed Bishop of Marseille and ordained on February 19, 1710, and enthroned in Paris on March 30, 1710.

He gained notoriety for his work against the plague and his consecration of Marseille on November 1, 1720 to the Sacred Heart of Jesus . This consecration was inspired by the Salesian and mystic Anne-Madeleine Rémusat and was the first major public act of devotion to the Heart of Jesus after Margareta Maria Alacoque 's Visions of the Sacred Heart . He fought against Jansenism in his archbishopric .

Henri de Belsunce rejected the appointment as Bishop of Laon in 1723, as did the appointment as Archbishop of Bordeaux in 1729.

From 1729 he was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Arnulf in Metz and the Cella Les Chambons and from 1731 abbot of Montmorel. He was an advisor to King Louis XIV.

Works

  • Abrégé de la vie de Suzanne-Henriette de Foix de Candale. Ed. Guillot, Agen, 1707
  • New letters à M. de Colbert, Évêque de Montpellier. Ed. Brébion, Marseille, 1730
  • Le livre de Saint Augustin traduit en français. Ed. Brébion, Marseille 1740
  • L'Antiquité De L'Église De Marseille, Et La Succession De Ses Évêques (Volume 1), Ed. Brébion, Marseille 1747

literature

  • Theophile Berengier: Vie de Monseigneur Henry de Belsunce ... Delhomme et Briquet, 1887.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathieu Marais, Henri Duranton, Robert Granderoute: Journal de Paris (Volume 2), Université de Saint-Etienne 2004, p. 94
  2. ^ François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois : Dictionnaire de la noblesse, contenant les généalogies, l'histoire et la chronologie des familles nobles de France (Volume 2), Vve Duchesne 1771, page 313
  3. ↑ Collectif: Mémoires du Président Hénault , p. 166
  4. ^ Henri François Xavier de Belsunce: L'Antiquité De L'Église De Marseille, Et La Succession De Ses Évêques (Volume 1). Ed. Brébion, Marseille 1747
predecessor Office successor
Bernard de Foudenx de Castillon Bishop of Marseille
1710–1755 		Jean-Baptiste de Belloy
personal data
SURNAME Belsunce-Castelmoron, Henri François-Xavier de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES de Belsunce de Castelmoron, Henri François Xavier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French bishop of Marseilles
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1671
PLACE OF BIRTH Périgord , France
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1755
Place of death Marseille , France