Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier

Sel. P. Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier OP
In 1908, in the midst of a group of confreres, on his right, Blessed Pio Alberto del Corona , Bishop of San Miniato
Born	December 8, 1832 ( Orléans )
Deceased	December 17, 1916 ( Rome )
beatification	November 20, 1994 in Rome by John Paul II.
Holiday	May 21, a non-mandatory day of remembrance among the Dominicans (anniversary of his election to the general magisterium)

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier OP (civil Louis-Stanislas-Henri Cormier ; * December 8, 1832 in Orléans , † December 17, 1916 in Rome ) was a French Dominican who served as the 76th General Magister of his order from 1904 to 1916. Pope John Paul II beatified Father Hyacinthe-Marie in 1994 .

Life

Youth and education

His father, a merchant, died when Louis was young, whereupon his mother raised him and his brother Eugène near his uncle, who was a priest . Eugène died in childhood. Louis was initially homeschooled. In 1846, at the age of thirteen, he entered the boys' seminary of the Orléans diocese .

As a student, Louis trained in literature and more in music, especially singing and playing the flageolet , the organ and the ophicleide . On one occasion, Franz Liszt heard him play the organ and described his playing as masterly.

After entering the seminary of the Orléans diocese , which was led by the Sulpizians , Cormier studied philosophy and theology and asked to be accepted into the third order of St. Dominic . He graduated at the top of his class. The Bishop of Orlèans, Felix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup , ordained him on May 17, 1856 . Since Cormier had not yet reached the canonical age of ordination, a dispensation was given to him.

Entry to the Dominicans

Shortly after his ordination, he felt called to become a Dominican himself by following the example of the life of the Dominican Agnes of Jesus (Agnès Galland). Cormier went to Flavigny , where Father Henri Lacordaire set up a novitiate for the Dominican candidates. On June 29, 1856, with the permission of his bishop, he entered the novitiate at Flavigny and took the religious name Hyacinthe-Marie .

While he was excelling in his studies, Fr. Hyacinthe-Marie suffered from internal bleeding. His health problems were so severe that he was not admitted to profession , but was to be discharged from the order. At that time visitierte but the General Master of the Dominicans, Alexandre Vincent Jandel , the Monastery of Flavigny and was so impressed by P. Hyacinth Marie's character and dedication that he wanted to present to the Holy See in case a dispensation for passing the profession to be able to obtain. The Magister General took Fr Hyacinthe-Maries to Rome as his personal secretary and sent him there to the novitiate of the monastery of Santa Sabina on the Aventine .

After Pope Pius IX. After the request had been made to P. Jandel, he allowed P. Hyacinthe-Marie to make profession on the condition that he did not suffer from internal bleeding for a full month, and stated, “Since it has not been given to him, to live in the Dominican habit , he will at least die in it ”. P. Cormier subsequently worked as Jandel's secretary. On several occasions he was unable to fulfill the Pope's condition; once he had no bleeding for 29 days, but never for a full month. Eventually he fell so seriously ill that he was allowed to profess on May 23, 1859 in articulo mortis in the chapter house of Santa Sabina.

Shortly afterwards, Fr. Hyacinth-Marie made a full recovery. After his profession he became deputy novice master of Santa Sabina. In 1863 the convent of the Corbara Monastery in Corbara in Corsica elected him prior . Two years later he was introduced to office as the first Provincial of Toulouse . In 1869 he was re-elected to this office and held it until 1874. Then he was appointed prior of a convent in Marseilles , where he completed the construction of a church and the priory. In 1878 he was re-elected provincial; he worked in this office until 1888 and was then appointed definitor for the general chapters in Lyon in 1891.

Sadoc Szabo reports in Hyacinth Marie Cormier: 76th Master General of the Order of Preachers that Pope Leo XIII. In 1899 Fr. Hyacinthe-Marie intended to be promoted to cardinal , but was dissuaded in view of the French government, which would not have been benevolent to a cardinal from an order.

Term of office as Generalmagister

After the General Chapter, Fr. Hyacinthe-Marie was sent to Rome as the Socius of the newly elected General Magister, Fr. Andreas Frühwirth. There Cormier was appointed procurator of the order. On May 21, 1904 he was elected Magister General at the General Chapter in the monastery of Santa Maria de la Quercia near Viterbo. In this office, he re-established many dissolved religious provinces and established others, including that of the Most Holy Name of Jesus in the western United States .

Fr Hyacinthe-Marie was known for the spiritual depth of his retreats and powerful sermons. His influence contributed to the beatifications of Reginald of Orléans , Bertrand Garrigua , Raimund of Capua , and Andreas Abellon .

As Magister General he played a decisive role in the reorganization of the Angelicum in Rome, which later became the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas was. The general chapter in 1904 asked Cormier to organize a study generalissimum for the entire order at the college . The college set up by Father Hyacinthe-Marie served not only to educate the Dominicans, but also the secular clergy. In 1906 it was elevated to the Pontificium Collegium Divi Thomae de Urbe . The motto of the college, caritas veritatis , comes from P. Hyaincthe-Marie Cormier.

Adoration

After his tenure ended in 1916, Cormier moved to the convent at the Basilica of San Clemente . He died there after a brief illness on December 17th at 12:30 p.m. His body was laid out in San Clemente, and the funeral ceremony took place in the Campo Verano cemetery in Rome. On December 17, 1934, his remains were transferred to Santi Domenico e Sisto , the University Church of the Angelicum.

In life it was said of Fr. Hyacinthe-Marie: “He gives peace to everything he touches”. On numerous occasions he has been seen floating in the air by confreres in the Angelicum while praying before the Blessed Sacrament . The beatification process for Fr. Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier was opened in 1945, on November 20, 1994 the beatification took place. The Dominican Agnes of Jesus, who inspired Father Hyacinthe-Marie through her holy life to join the Dominicans, was beatified in the same ceremony. The feast day of Fr. Hyacinthe-Marie Cormiers in the liturgy is May 21st.

Web links

• Cormier, Hyacinthe-Marie. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed July 28, 2016. (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Andreas Franz Frühwirth	Magister General of the Dominicans 1904–1916	Ludwig Theissling