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]
Hélie de Bourdeilles | |
|---|---|
| Archbishop of Tours | |
 | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Tours |
| See | Tours |
| Appointed | 16 May 1468 |
| Installed | 23 December 1468 |
| Term ended | 5 July 1484 |
| Predecessor | Gérard de Crussol |
| Successor | Robert 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 | |
| Ordination | 1434 |
| Consecration | 13 April 1348 by Niccolò Albergati |
| Created cardinal | 15 November 1483 by Pope Sixtus IV |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Hélie de Bourdeilles 1413 |
| Died | 5 July 1484 (aged 70-71) Artannes, Tours, Kingdom of France |
| Buried | Saint-Gatien Cathedral |
| Parents | Périgord de Bourdeilles Jeanne de Chamberlhac |
| Alma mater | University of Toulouse |
| Coat of arms | .svg) |
| Sainthood | |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Title as Saint | Servant of God |
Life
editHe 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
editA 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
edit- ^ a b c d e
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Weber, Nicholas Aloysius (1907). "Hélie de Bourdeilles". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum (in Latin). Typis polyglottis vaticanis. January 1953. p. 61.
Sources
edit- 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)
External links
edit- "BOURDEILLES, O.F.M.Obs., Hélie d". Archived from the original on 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
