Pie Eugène Joseph Neveu
Pie Eugène Joseph Neveu AA (born February 24, 1877 in Gien , Loiret department , † October 17, 1946 in Paris , Île-de-France ) was a French theologian and apostolic administrator of Moscow .
Life
The son of a humble and large family with 16 children Eugène Joseph Neveu visited the Externat Saint-Joseph de Gien , the minor seminary in Orléans and entered 1895 assuming the religious name Pie the Congregation of the Assumptionists in. In 1897 he put in Jerusalem , the religious vows from, studied philosophy and theology at Notre-Dame de Paris . It was in 1901 professor at the Slavic seminary in Karagatch and on 18 March 1905 in Constantinople Opel for priests ordained.
He dedicated his apostolate to the Slavic and Oriental world: teacher in Varna , then chaplain of the Good Shepherd congregation in St. Petersburg , he became pastor in the mining town of Makiivka in the Donets Basin in 1907 . In this position he experienced the dramatic events that had an impact on Russia from the beginning of World War I until the Bolsheviks seized power . Soon afterwards, persecution of Christian communities, Orthodox or otherwise, began. The Catholic hierarchy was now completely destroyed and without bishops.
The Pope Pius XI. Russia sent Jesuit Michel d'Herbigny should consecrate the Russian titular bishops and apostolic administrators use, consecrated in the Church of St. Louis of France on April 21, 1926 behind closed doors Pie-Eugène Neveu to the titular of Citrus and appointed him Apostolic Administrator of Moscow .
Since his episcopal ordination became known , he was under constant surveillance by the secret services, but enjoyed the informal protection of the embassy of the Republic of France , so that he was allowed to continue his apostolate.
To take part in the national pilgrimage to Lourdes in 1934, he returned to France and went to Rome , where the Pope received him for a long time. After returning to Russia in 1935, he consecrated Jean-Marie-Felix Amoudru OP as titular bishop of Pyrgos . In 1936 he returned to France for health reasons.
After he could no longer get a visa for the Soviet Union , he spent the rest of his life in France serving various dioceses. He died on October 17, 1946 in Paris after a religious ceremony in the Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot church . After the funeral in Paris, his body was transferred to the Sainte-Jeanne d'Arc church in Gien on May 16, 1954 .
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| SURNAME | Neveu, Pie Eugène Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neveu, Eugène Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French theologian and apostolic administrator of Moscow |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gien , Loiret |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 1946 |
| Place of death | Paris , Île-de-France |