Jean Marie du Lau d'Allemans
Jean Marie du Lau d'Allemans , also Jean Marie Dulau d'Allemans , (born October 30, 1738 at La Coste Castle , Grézels ; † September 2, 1792 in Paris ) was the last Archbishop of Arles since 1775 .
Du Lau restored ecclesiastical order in his diocese and came to Paris as a member of the National Assembly during the French Revolution , where he refused the oath of the civil constitution for the clergy , whereupon he was imprisoned in the Carmelite monastery there and murdered along with the other prisoners .
In 1926 he was beatified along with 190 victims of the September murders . His feast day is September 2nd.
literature
- F. Reibel: Lau, Jean Marie d'Allemans du . In: Josef Höfer , Karl Rahner (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 2nd Edition. tape 6 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1961, Sp. 823 .
- Gérard Cholvy (ed.): Un évêque dans la tourmente révolutionnaire, Jean Marie du Lau, archevêque d'Arles, et ses compagnons martyrs, 1792-1992 . Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 1995, ISBN 2-910823-00-8 .
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| SURNAME | Du Lau d'Allemans, Jean Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dulau d'Allemans, Jean Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | last Archbishop of Arles |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1738 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Coste Castle , Grézels |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 2, 1792 |
| Place of death | Paris |