Jules-Ernest Houssay

Jules-Ernest Houssay , alias Abbé Julio (* 1844 in Cossé-le-Vivien , Mayenne, France, † September 27, 1912 in Geneva ) was a French Gallican bishop and spiritual healer .

After his ordination in 1867, the son of a construction worker worked in various places, from 1878 in Paris, as a Catholic clergyman. In 1885 he broke with his bishop, worked as a journalist and book author and approached Neo- Gallicanism . From 1903 he lived in Vincennes and ran a chapel there. In 1904 he consecrated him in the old Catholic church of Tiengen (Baden) Bishop Paolo Miraglia Gullotti (1857-1918), founder of the " Chiesa Cattolica Italiana Indipendente ", ordained by Joseph René Vilatte , as bishop and head of the " Église catholique libre de France " . Houssay, for his part, consecrated Louis-Marie François Giraud , the later patriarch of the " Église Gallicane ", as bishop on June 21, 1911 .

Even Friedrich Heiler and the High Church of St. John Brotherhood perform their apostolic succession over Giraud's coadjutor Pierre Gaston Vigue (1872-1963) back to Houssay.

After meeting the spiritual healer Jean Sempé (around 1888) and the alchemist Jean Julien Champagne ( Fulcanelli ), Houssay developed a lively activity as an exorcist and spiritual healer. Under the name of Abbé Julio , he published relevant writings, the reprints of which are still sold today.

Works

• Secrets merveilleux pour aider à la guérison de toutes les maladies physiques et morales par l'abbé Julio. Paris: Chamuel, 1899.
• Le Livre secret des grands exorcismes et bénédictions. Prières antiques, formules occultes, recettes spéciales avec explication et application des signes et pentacles contenus dans les Grands secrets merveilleux, les prières liturgiques, le livre des exorcismes, et les Petits secrets merveilleux. Recueil rare et précieux ne devant être confié qu'aux personnes vertueuses par l'abbé Julio. Vincennes: chez l'auteur, 1908.

literature

• Bernard Vignot: Le phénomène des églises parallèles . Cerf, Paris 2010, 65-