Philippe Berruyer

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Philippe Berruyer († January 9, 1260 ) was a Bishop of Orléans , Archbishop of Bourges and saint of the 13th century. He was a nephew of the also canonized Guillaume Berruyer , one of his predecessors in office in Bourges.

Before being elected Bishop of Orléans, Philippe Berruyer served as Archdeacon in Beaugency . In 1236 he occupied the city of Orléans with the interdict and its residents with excommunication after violent riots had broken out there between residents and students. With the French King Louis IX. (Saint Louis) he took the cross for the sixth crusade in 1248 , from which he probably returned home in the late year 1249 after taking Damiette . In the spring of 1251 he was engaged in fighting the so-called " Shepherd's Crusade " in Bourges .

Philippe Berruyer died a few days after the feast day of the Epiphany (January 6th) 1260. During his tenure he had significantly promoted the construction of the cathedral of Bourges . At the instigation of King Louis IX. Pope Clement IV opened a process of canonization for Philippe Berruyer in 1265, in which forty-three miracles were found in his places of activity. In 1267 he was finally canonized; his feast day is January 9th.

literature

  • François Giry: Vie de saints (1860), pp. 12–21 ( Le Bienheureux Philippe Berruyer )
  • Thomas B. Payne: Aurelianis civitas: Student Unrest in Medieval France and a Conductus by Philip the Chancellor , in: Speculum 75 (2000), p. 591

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthäus Paris , Chronica majora , ed. by HR Luard in: Rolls Series 57 (1876), Vol. 3, pp. 370-371
  2. ↑ Guillaume de Nangis , Gesta Sancti Ludovici , ed. by M. Daunou in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 20 (1840), p. 352
  3. ↑ Guillaume de Nangis, Gesta Sancti Ludovici , ed. by M. Daunou in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 20 (1840), p. 382
  4. ↑ Guillaume de Nangis, Gesta Sancti Ludovici , ed. by M. Daunou in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 20 (1840), p. 414
predecessor Office successor
Simon de Sully Archbishop of Bourges
1232–1260 		Jean de Sully
Philippe de Jouy Bishop of Orléans
1234–1238 		Guillaume de Bussy
personal data
SURNAME Philippe Berruyer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Orléans, Archbishop of Bourges, saint
DATE OF BIRTH 12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1260