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Vincent De Paul and the Episcopate of France Vincentian Heritage Journal Volume 10 Issue 2 Article 1 Fall 1989 Vincent de Paul and the Episcopate of France Pierre Blet S.J. Follow this and additional works at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/vhj Recommended Citation Blet, Pierre S.J. (1989) "Vincent de Paul and the Episcopate of France," Vincentian Heritage Journal: Vol. 10 : Iss. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/vhj/vol10/iss2/1 This Articles is brought to you for free and open access by the Vincentian Journals and Publications at Via Sapientiae. It has been accepted for inclusion in Vincentian Heritage Journal by an authorized editor of Via Sapientiae. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vincent de Paul and the Episcopate of France B PIERRE BLET, S.J. TRANSLATED BY FRANCES PROFFITT, D.C.* Historians of Saint Vincent de Paul, both past and present, have described how Anne of Austria, the queen regent of France, appointed the founder of the Congregation of the Mission to the Council of Conscience and thus put him in a position to have an influence on the naming of bishops. Without making any claim to utilizing new mate- rial, much less exhausting the subject, I would like to clarify the matter somewhat. In this regard Pierre Coste has written: Thanks to Saint Vincent, many dioceses were governed by pastors animated with an apostolic zeal that formed a striking contrast with the worldliness of their seniors in the episcopacy. Let it suffice to name Lescot, of Chartres; Perrochel, of Boulogne; Caulet, of Pamiers; Habert, of Vabres; Bassompierre, of Oloron and then of Saintes; Liverdi, of Treguier; Sevin, of Sarlat and then of Cahors; Bosquet, of Lodève and then of Montpellier, and Brandom, of Perigueux.' This assertion for the most part is justified. Unfortunately it lacks any reference or source and was apparently inspired by some older bi- ographies. It seems a bit rash to attribute the promotion of Doctor Jacques Lescot, Cardinal Richelieu's confessor, to the influence of Monsieur Vincent. In addition, the contrast between the apostolic zeal of the protégés of Vincent de Paul and the worldliness of their predeces- sors is quite typical of a hagiographic style intent on exalting its hero by *This article appeared originally in Vincent de Paul: Actes du Colloque Internatinal d'Etudes Vincentiennes, Paris, 25-26 septembre 1981 (Rome: 1983):81-114. Additional editorial work and annota- tions for the English translation by Stafford Poole, C.M. 'Pierre Coste, C.M., Monsieur Vincent: le grand saint du grand siècle, 3 vols. (Paris, 1931), 2:422. [English translation: The Life and Works of Saint Vincent de Paul. Translated by Joseph Leonard, CM., 3 vols. (Westminster, Maryland: 1952),3:227.1 The following abbreviations are used in this article. VA for Vatican Archives; BV for Vatican Library; CED, Saint Vincent de Paul: Correspondence, entretiens, documents, ed. by Pierre Coste, CM., 14 vols. (Paris, 1921-1925). 103 making him stand out against a bleak background. Admittedly, on this point Coste did not need to give any reference. An entire historical tradition, not totally extinct even today, regularly paints the episcopate of pre-revolutionary France in the darkest colors. More recent works are beginning to improve this image. Nevertheless, more research and clarification are needed on this point. Therefore, after a few remarks on the episcopate and episcopal nominations at the beginning of the seventeenth century, we shall seek to understand the place that Mon- sieur Vincent himself occupied in the affairs of church and state and the role he was able to play in them. Then we will identify some of the bishops who were nominated through his intervention, or at least with his agreement. I. The Episcopate in the Time of Monsieur Vincent The story of the bishops of pre-revolutionary France is a familiar one: bishops as civil servants, appointed by the king, bound to the gov- ernment from which they obtained their miter and to which they looked for advancement and preferment. It would take too long to cite all the history books in which this assertion is made. It is true that after 1516, title 3 of the Concordat of Bologna gave to the king of France the right to submit to the pope the names of those whom he wanted to have appointed to the consistorial benefices, that is, to bishoprics and abbeys. If the candidate presented was qualified, the pope was bound to grant the bulls of canonical investiture. There is no denying that under the Valois kings this procedure was the source of many abuses. Bishoprics and abbeys endowed with rich revenues were used to reward individu- als or families for services rendered to the state. The following, how- ever, should also be noted. (1) It was not the Concordat of Bologna but the piety of the faithful that during the course of centuries endowed the episcopal sees or abbeys with real estate or seigneurial and ecclesiastical rights, espe- cially tithes, which made these rich benefices tempting objects for greedy families or individuals. (2) It is therefore an error to believe that the bull of Leo X which granted to Francis I and his successors the right of nomination to the episcopate removed these bishoprics from the power of the church and put them in the hands of the laity. On the one hand, the older system established by the Pragmatic Sanction, that is, election of bishops by cathedral chapters, left the door open to influences by both the court 104 and the local feudal system.2 The concordat had the advantage of determining clearly who was responsible for making the choice. (3) It is also erroneous to believe that the church lost all control over the choice of candidates. The bulls of canonical investiture were granted only after an inquiry and a report presented in the consistory by the cardinal protector of the nation, demonstrating that the candidate possessed the requisite qualities, the minimum age of twenty-seven, academic degrees, etc. There were occasions when the pope refused to grant bulls to candidates of the king of France. This is seen in the fact that the papal nuncio in Poland tried to persuade King Stefan Batory to give up a presentation by pointing out to him the example of the king of France, who withdrew some nominations after remonstrance by the pope.' It was one of the functions of the nuncio to watch over these nominations, as we shall see in some cases in which Monsieur Vincent was involved. (4) No matter how great may have been the carelessness of the Valois kings in the presentation of certain candidates and the abuses of confidence and the simony denounced by the reforming prelates, it must be noted that the assemblies of the clergy at the end of the sixteenth century, composed of those prelates nominated by the king, were the most persistent in protesting against the royal nominations, even resorting to the threat that the king would die childless if he continued to interfere in appointments to benefices. It was only in 1615 that the ecclesiastical chamber of the Estates General gave up campaigning for a return to election by chapters in favor of entreating the king to make good nominations. To this end, it suggested to Louis XIII that he "choose six ecclesiastics and two members of his council to establish a council which will have the power and authority of Your Majesty to examine the qualities and abilities of those who will hereafter be presented to him to be nominated for bishoprics.114 Twenty-eight years later, the queen regent, Anne of Austria, would grant the ecclesiastical chamber's petition of 1615 and establish the Council of Conscience, to which she would call Vincent de Paul. During the interval, there was no lack of advisers to help the king in the choice of bishops—Cardinals de 21mbard de la Tour, Les origines de la Reforme, (Paris, 1942), 2:213-242. 'Edward Kuntze and Czesaw Nanke, Albert Bolognetti nuntii apostolici in Polonia Epistolarum et actorum pars prima, 1581-1582. Vol. 5 of Monumenta Poloniae Vaticana (Cracow, 1923-1933), 475. 4Recueil des actes, titres et mémoires concernant les afaires du Clerge de France ... contenant les cahiers présentés et les remonstrances et harangues faites aux rois (Paris, 1771), col. 1241. For a general view, see Pierre Blet, "Le concordat de Bologne et la réforme tridentine," Grègorianum 45 (1964):241-279. 105 la Rochefoucauld and de Gondi, both members of his councils with the title of ministers of state—before Cardinal Richelieu brought the direc- tion of these matters under his control. To form an idea of the quality of these choices, it will suffice to look at the information about candidates for the episcopate that the nuncios gave in their correspondence a few years before Vincent was made a part of the Council of Conscience. On 1 July 1616 the nuncio Alberto Bolognetti described the nomi- nations of Abras de Raconis, Alain de Solminihac, and Antoine Godeau, "all persons held in high regard for their great goodness, zeal, and worth," to the vacant sees of Lavaur, Cahors, and Grasse.' We will see that one of these prelates, Solminihac, bishop of Cahors, kept up a regular correspondence with Vincent de Paul with regard to the churches to be provided for and the prelates to be chosen. Meanwhile, on 14 October 1636, three months after his first report, Bolognetti wrote again about the candidate whom the king had nomi- nated to the see of Lavaur. Abras de Raconis was born of non-Catholic parents and needed a dispensation, because of which Rome asked for further information.
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