Joseph-Marie Martin

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Memorial plaque for Cardinal Martin in the cathedral at Rouen

Joseph-Marie-Eugène Cardinal Martin (born August 9, 1891 in Orléans , † January 21, 1976 in Rouen ) was Archbishop of Rouen and Primate of Normandy.

Life

He was born as Joseph-Marie Martin in Orléans and was given the additional name Eugène when he was baptized . He studied at the Theological Seminary in Bordeaux before serving in the French army during World War I , in which he was seriously injured. Martin was ordained a priest on December 18, 1920 and was then active in the pastoral work of the Archdiocese of Bordeaux until 1940 . Between 1937 and 1940 he was Vicar General of Bordeaux.

Pope Pius XII appointed him on February 9, 1940 Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay . The Archbishop of Bordeaux Maurice Feltin donated him episcopal ordination on April 2nd of the same year ; Co- consecrators were Clément Joseph Mathieu , Bishop of Aire and Dax and Louis Liagre , Bishop of La Rochelle . He administered the diocese of Le Puy-en-Velay until his appointment as Archbishop of Rouen on October 11, 1948. He took part in the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965.

Paul VI took him on February 22, 1965 as a cardinal priest with the titular church Santa Teresa al Corso d'Italia in the college of cardinals . Cardinal Martin believed that the reaction of Conservative Catholics to the introduction of the vernacular into mass could lead to a schism . On May 29, 1968, Paul VI. Martin's application for resignation, submitted for reasons of age, and later he lost the right to participate in a conclave because on August 9, 1971, he exceeded the age of 80.

The cardinal died in Rouen on January 21, 1976 at the age of 84 and was buried in Rouen Cathedral.

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Individual evidence

  1. TIME Magazine : Reluctant Revolutionary September 24, 1965
predecessor Office successor
Norbert-Georges-Pierre Rousseau Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay
1940–1948
Joseph-Marie-Jean-Baptiste Chappe
Pierre Cardinal Petit de Julleville Archbishop of Rouen
1948–1968
André Pailler