Nicolas Gervaise

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Nicolas Gervaise (* 1662 in Paris , † November 20, 1729 in Venezuela ) was a French missionary bishop, Vicar Apostolic of the Antilles and the Caribbean .

Life

Nicolas Gervaise was born in Paris in 1662. His father Nicolas Gervaise (around 1610–1672) was the personal physician of the disgraced artistic director Nicolas Fouquet . His brother François (1660-1751) was abbot of the reformed Cistercian Abbey of La Trappe from 1696 to 1698 .

Nicolas Gervaise entered the seminary of the Paris Missions Etrangères ( Paris Mission ) at a young age , which trained missionaries for service in Indochina. In 1681 he accompanied the founder François Pallu to Siam ( Thailand ) and continued his studies at the seminar opened there in Ayutthaya . In 1685 he was sent back to Paris by Vicar Apostolic Bishop Louis Laneau . In 1705 he found himself provost of Suèvres in the diocese of Blois , a branch of the chapter of Saint Martin in Tours. On June 6th 1726 Pope Benedict XIII preconized him . in the consistory titular Bishop of Horrea and appointed him Vicar Apostolic of the Antilles and the Caribbean. Pope Benedict personally donated his episcopal ordination on June 11, 1726 in the Sistine Chapel . Consecration assistants were the bishops and later cardinals Nicolò Maria Lercari , titular archbishop of Nazianz , and Francesco Antonio Fini (1669–1743), archbishop of Damascus in partibus.

Bishop Gervaise was massacred by natives on November 20, 1729 on a mission trip together with seven other French on a tributary of the Orinoco called Aquira in Spanish Guiana (today Venezuela ) .

After his return from Siam he wrote a Description du royaume de Macaçar and a Histoire naturelle et politique du Royaume de Siam , as well as a biography of St. Martin von Tours , probably as a qualification for his position in the chapter of Tours. His Histoire de Boèce , sénateur romain , published in 1715, is often erroneously ascribed to his brother François.

Works

  • Description du royaume de Macaçar , Paris: H. Foucault, 1688, Ratisbonne: E. Kinkius, 1700
  • Histoire naturelle et politique du Royaume de Siam , Paris: Claude Barbin, 1688
  • Vie de Saint Martin, Evêque de Tours, et histoire de la fondation de l'insigne église élevée en son honneur à Tours , Tours: Barthe H.-M. Duval, 1699, 1828
  • Histoire de Boèce, sénateur romain, avec l'analyse de tous ses ouvrages, des notes et des dissertations historiques et théologiques , 2 volumes, Paris 1715

literature

  • Feller, François Xavier de: Biographie universelle, ou Dictionnaire des hommes qui se sont fait un nom, Nouv. éd. - Lyon: Pelagaud, 1851
  • Hoefer: Nouvelle biographie générale: depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources à consulter, Paris: Firmin Didot, 1852–1866
  • Dezobry, Louis Charles; Bachelet, Théodore: Dictionnaire général de biographie et d'histoire: de mythologie, de géographie ancienne et modern comparée, des antiquités et des institutions grecques, romaines, françaises et étrangères, 5e éd. rev., Paris: Delagrave, 1869
  • Launay, Adrien: Mémorial de la Société des Missions-Étrangères / par Adrien Launay, Paris: Séminaire des Missions-Étrangères, 1912–1916
  • Laurencin, Michel: Dictionnaire biographique de Touraine, Chambray-lès-Tours: CLD, 1990

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personal data
SURNAME Gervaise, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Mission Bishop, Vicar Apostolic of the Antilles and the Caribbean
DATE OF BIRTH 1662
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1729
Place of death Venezuela