Sylvain-Marie Giraud

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Sylvain-Marie Giraud

Sylvain-Marie Giraud (born September 30, 1830 in Éguilles , † August 22, 1885 in Tarascon ) was a French Roman Catholic priest, Salettiner , religious superior, mystic and author.

life and work

Priest with a monastic ideal

Sylvain Giraud studied in Aix-en-Provence and was ordained a priest in 1853. In the Archdiocese of Aix- en-Provence he was appointed as a teacher because of his intellectual talent, but felt no calling. Since he was also not drawn to local pastoral care, he understood that he could only live his spiritual ideal as a monk.

The Salettiner

In 1857, during a retreat , he discovered the apparition site Notre-Dame de la Salette in La Salette-Fallavaux , where the Congregation of Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette founded by Bishop Philibert de Bruillard of Grenoble had existed since 1852 . In 1858 he joined the community, which until then had only six members with vows. In 1860 he made the temporary vows himself (he always refused to take perpetual vows) and was appointed novice master. His first books appeared in 1863 and 1864. From 1865 (at the age of 35) to 1876 he was elected superior. Then, at his own request, he switched to the branch on Mount Pipet in Vienne (Isère) , which he had founded in 1869 and was in charge of until his death. He is considered to be the spiritual founder of the congregation.

Start-up attempt with Caroline Lioger

From 1867 to 1870 Giraud maintained close relationships with the women's community Victimes du Saint Cœur de Jésus (VSCJ, later: Religieuses du Cœur de Jésus de La Roche-sur-Yon ) in Les Avenières , which had existed since 1857 , in the hope of making his plans for to be able to set up an institute for the Missionaries of La Salette. When it became concrete, however, the founder and superior, the Lyon mystic Caroline Lioger (1825-1883, religious name: Marie-Véronique du Sacré-Cœur de Jésus ) broke off relations.

Founding of the nuns of La Salette

In 1872, together with Alexandrine Geoffray, he founded the community of the Third Religieuses de La Salette de Lyon , from 1951 under the name Petites sœurs de la Vierge Marie de Lyon (merged in 1967 into Les filles du Cœur de Marie , Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary ) . Alexandrine Geoffray founded the community of the Filles de Notre-Dame Auxiliatrice de Lyon in 1860 , which prayed for the souls in purgatory and cared for the workers in a charitable manner. She had taken the vows in 1868 under Cardinal de Bonald and accepted the religious name Marie-Thérèse de Sainte-Chantal . In 1869 she had met Giraud and let him gradually reorient her to the Madonna of La Salette, with a role played by Jacques Ginoulhiac (1806-1875), who had come to appreciate Giraud as Bishop of Grenoble, in 1870 Archbishop of Lyon has been.

Author and editor

Giraud was a prolific author of spiritual literature with a mystical orientation, whose works (especially appreciated by Mary of the Passion ) have been translated into several languages. In 1865 he founded the magazine Annales de Notre Dame de la Salette (since 1974 ud T. La Salette. Annales de Notre Dame de la Salette ), which still exists today.

Preacher and death

Giraud was a gifted preacher (also vocally) who spent half of his life (despite ever new diseases) on the road for lectures and retreats (in a room that stretched from Reims to the Mediterranean, twice to Rome). Numerous testimonies attest to the impression of holiness that he made on his contemporaries. When he went on a lecture tour to the south in the summer of 1885, he was already seriously suffering and terminally ill. Coming from Fontfroide via Perpignan and Narbonne , he died on the way home in Tarascon . He was buried in La Salette. In his hometown of Éguilles, the Avenue du Père Sylvain Giraud is named after him.

Works

  • La Pratique de la dévotion à N.-D. Reconciliatrice de la Salette . Prudhomme, Grenoble 1863.
    • La Pratique de la dévotion à N.-D. de La Salette. Manuel de l'archiconfrérie. Nouvelle édition. Notre-Dame de La Salette 1875, 1880, 1896.
  • De la vie d'union avec Marie, mère de Dieu . Paris / Grenoble 1864. 10th edition, Paris 1930.
    • (Italian) La vita di unione con Maria Madre di Dio. Ancora, Milan 1939, 1944.
  • De l'union à Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ dans sa vie de victime. Traité de l'esprit et de la vie de victime considéré comme fondement et caractère essentiel de la vie chrétienne, suivi de diverse sujets relatifs à la perfection de la vie de victime . Notre-Dame de La Salette 1870, 8th edition, Paris 1932.
    • (Italian) Dell'unione a NS Gesù Cristo nella sua vita di vittima. Trattato dello spirito e della vita di vittima considerati come fondamento essenziale della vita cristiana. Seguito da diversi argomenti relativi alla perfezione della vita di vittima. Ancora, Milan 1942.
  • Le Voeu de dévouement au Saint-Siège . Notre-Dame de La Salette 1872.
    • (German) The vow of devotion to St. Chair. Kranzfeld, Augsburg 1872.
  • Pour les âmes du purgatoire. Discours et notice sur l'oeuvre de Notre-Dame Auxiliatrice et sur la fondation des religieuses de Notre-Dame de la Salette . Lyon 1872.
  • De l'esprit et de la vie de sacrifice dans l'état religieux . 1873. 4th edition. Briday, Lyon 1879; 15th edition, Paris 1929.
    • (English) The spirit of sacrifice and the life of sacrifice in the religious state. Benziger, New York 1906. Classic reprint. Forgotten Books 2015.
  • Immolation et charité dans le gouvernement des âmes, lettres à une supérieure de communauté . Notre-Dame de La Salette 1876. 8th edition. Paris 1929.
  • Jésus-Christ, pretre et victime. Méditations sur les mystères de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ considérés du point de vue de son sacerdoce et de son état de victime . 2 vols. Corps 1878, Paris 1902.
    • (English) Jesus Christ. Priest and victim. Washbourne, London 1914.
  • Petit traité de l'oraison mental . Notre-Dame de La Salette 1879; 4th edition, Paris 1887.
  • Prêtre et hostie. Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ et son prêtre considérés dans l'éminente dignité du sacerdoce et les saintes dispositions de l'état d'hostie. 2 vols. Delhomme et Briguet, Lyon 1885. 5th edition, Beauchesne, Paris 1924.
    • (Italian) Sacerdote e ostia. Vita e pensiero, Milan 1936, most recently in 1964.
  • Vers les hauteurs spiritual. Recueil inédit des enseignements oraux du fondateur des religieuses de la Salette de Lyon . Emmanuel Vitte, Lyon 1936. Éditions Magnificat, Saint-Jovite, Québec, 2000.
  • Le Livre des exercices spirituels de Notre-Dame de la Salette . Editions de la Revue «Les Alpes», Grenoble 1946.
  • Pensieri di p. Silvano Maria Giraud, ex Superiore Generale, il più celebre dei missionari de la Salette (1830–1885) . Rome 1981.

Literature (chronological)

  • Louis Carlier: Un vrai Fils de Marie. Le RP Giraud, Missionnaire de La Salette, ancien Supérieur général de la congrégation . F. Eymond, Grenoble 1922 (comprehensive on 600 pages, online).
    • Notice biographique sur le TRP Giraud, ancien supérieur des Missionnaires de La Salette. Grenoble 1926.
  • Victor Hostachy (1885–1967): Figures missionnaires. 1. Le RPSM Giraud, 1846-1885. Le mystique . Editions de la Revue "Les Alpes", Grenoble 1942.
  • Marie-Hélène Valentin: Le Père Giraud. Sa vie et a mission in l'Eglise . Lyon 1942.
  • Pierre Piriou: Cause de béatification et de canonisation du serviteur de Dieu Sylvain Marie Giraud, prêtre profès de l'Institut des missionnaires de N.-D. de la Salette. Articles du procès de l'ordinaire . Lyon 1947.
  • Jean Jaouen: Father Silvano Maria Giraud. Missionario di NS de La Salette (1830-1885) . Turin 1983.
    • Sylvain-Marie Giraud (1830-1885). Missionnaires de Notre-Dame de La Salette , Rome 1985.
  • Marie-Antoinette Bassieux (Ed.): Sylvain-Marie Giraud. Un pionnier de la Salette . La Ravoire, Gap 1990 (texts by Giraud, French and Provencal).
  • Philippe de Lignerolles and Jean-Pierre Meynard: Histoire de la spiritualité chrétienne. 700 auteurs spirituels. Editions de l'Atelier, Paris 1996, p. 232.

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personal data
SURNAME Giraud, Sylvain-Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giraud, Sylvain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Roman Catholic priest, Salettian, religious superior and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Éguilles
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1885
Place of death Tarascon