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Hélie de Bourdeilles

Archbishop of Tours
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
ArchdioceseTours
SeeTours
Appointed16 May 1468
Installed23 December 1468
Term ended5 July 1484
PredecessorGérard de Crussol
SuccessorRobert de Lénoncourt
Other post(s)Cardinal-Priest pro illa vice of Santa Lucia in Selci (1483-84)
Previous post(s)Bishop of Périgueux (1437-68)
Orders
Ordination1434
Consecration13 April 1348
by Niccolò Albergati
Created cardinal15 November 1483
by Pope Sixtus IV
RankCardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born
Hélie de Bourdeilles

1413
Died5 July 1484 (aged 70-71)
Artannes, Tours, Kingdom of France
BuriedSaint-Gatien Cathedral
ParentsPérigord de Bourdeilles
Jeanne de Chamberlhac
Alma materUniversity of Toulouse
Coat of armsHélie de Bourdeilles's coat of arms
Sainthood
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Title as SaintServant of God

Hélie de Bourdeilles (ca. 1423, at the castle of Bourdeilles, Périgord – 5 July 1484, at Artannes near Tours) was a French Franciscan, Archbishop of Tours and Cardinal.[1]

Life

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He was the son of the viscount Arnaud de Bourdeilles. Having entered the Franciscan Order at an early age, he was only twenty-four when, at the request of Charles VII of France, he was appointed to the See of Périgueux (1447).[1]

During the wars between France and England he was held prisoner for several years by the English, in consequence of his defence of ecclesiastical immunity. In 1468 he was appointed to the Archiepiscopal See of Tours, and in 1483 he was raised to the cardinalate by Pope Sixtus IV. A stanch defender of the rights of the Church against the encroachments of the State, Bourdeilles advocated the abolition of the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, as may be seen from his treatise, Pro Pragmaticæ Sanctionis Abrogatione (Rome, 1486).[1]

Bourdeilles continued, during his episcopate, to practise religious poverty and was an intimate friend of St. Francis of Paula. He is mentioned among the Blessed in the Franciscan Martyrology for 5 July.[1]

He also wrote Libellus in Pragmaticam Sanctionem Gallorum (Rome, 1484); and a Latin defence of Jeanne d'Arc which is attached in manuscript to the process of her rehabilitation.[1]

Veneration

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A cause for the beatification of Bourdeilles was opened, and he was granted the title of Servant of God. Theologians approved his spiritual writings on 26 February 1913.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainWeber, Nicholas Aloysius (1907). "Hélie de Bourdeilles". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  2. ^ Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum (in Latin). Typis polyglottis vaticanis. January 1953. p. 61.

Sources

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  • Hugo von Hurter, Nomenclator (3d ed., Innsbruck, 1906), II, 1067–69
  • For full text of his treatise on Jeanne d'Arc see Lanery de L'Arc, Livre d'or de Jeanne d'Arc (Paris, 1894)
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