Pierre-Marie Gerlier
Pierre-Marie Cardinal Gerlier (born January 14, 1880 in Versailles , France , † January 17, 1965 in Lyon ) was Archbishop of Lyon and Primate of France .
Life
Pierre-Marie Gerlier studied Catholic theology and philosophy in Bordeaux and Freiburg in Üechtland . He took part in the First World War as an officer and received the sacrament of ordination as a late caller in Paris on July 29, 1921 . He then worked as a parish chaplain and director of Catholic work in the Archdiocese of Paris .
In 1929 Pope Pius XI appointed him . to the Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes . The episcopal ordination received Pierre-Marie Gerlier by Cardinal Louis-Ernest Dubois , co-consecrators were Benjamin Roland-Gosselin , coadjutor of Versailles , and Maurice Dubourg , bishop of Marseille . In July 1937 he was entrusted with the management of the Archdiocese of Lyon and in December of that year by Pius XI. as Cardinal Priest with the title Church Holy Trinity al Pincio in the Cardinal College added. Pierre-Marie Gerlier took in the years 1939 , 1958 and 1963 at the conclave in part. He represented Pope Pius XII. as a papal legate at various international celebrations . From 1962 to 1965 he took part in the first sessions of the Second Vatican Council . Pierre-Marie Cardinal Gerlier died of a heart attack in Lyon on January 17, 1965 and was buried in the cathedral there.
Act
For his efforts to protect Jews from persecution by the Third Reich, he was posthumously awarded the title Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1981 . At the end of August 1942, as the highest representative of the Catholic Church in the unoccupied zone , he joined the open resistance against the deportation of Jews. He refused to hand over 84 Jewish children to the local Vichy authorities who had been accepted into Catholic children's homes after their parents had been deported in the previous weeks. The children were also to be deported to the extermination camps on the express orders of Pierre Laval . On September 2, 1942, Gerlier sent a pastoral letter to the priests of his archdiocese, which corresponded almost verbatim to Jules Salièges a month earlier. What made Gerler's initiative critical for Pétain and Laval was the fact that until then he had been one of their preferred political interlocutors and supporters and, moreover, as Archbishop of Lyon, at the same time held the dignity of Primate Galliae ( primat des gaules ) and thus primus inter pares of the French bishops was.
Web links
- Gerlier, Pierre-Marie. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed August 5, 2016.
- Entry on Pierre-Marie Gerlier on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on August 5, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ Righteous Among the Nations Recognized by Yad Vashem as of January 1, 2008 - France . Yad Vashem . Retrieved August 8, 2016.
- ↑ Text in Art. Salièges
- ↑ Wolfgang Seibel : Power and Morality. The “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” in France 1940-1944. Konstanz University Press, Konstanz 2010, ISBN 3862530035 , short version online ( Memento from November 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), (PDF; 138 kB)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Louis-Joseph Cardinal Maurin |
Archbishop of Lyon 1937–1965 |
Jean-Marie Cardinal Villot |
| Alexandre-Philibert Poirier |
Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes 1929–1937 |
Georges-Eugène-Emile Choquet |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerlier, Pierre-Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gerlier, Pierre-Marie Cardinal (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French clergyman, Archbishop of Lyon and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Versailles , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 1965 |
| Place of death | Lyon |