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Diocese of Grenoble–Vienne-les-Allobroges

Dioecesis Gratianopolitana–Viennensis Allobrogum

Diocèse de Grenoble–Vienne-les-Allobroges
Grenoble Cathedral
Location
CountryFrance
Metropolitan Lyon
Archdeaconries Archdiocese of Lyon
Statistics
Area7,467 km2 (2,883 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2021)
1,288,000 (est.)
816,870 (est.) Decrease
Parishes47
Information
Denomination Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established4th Century
Cathedral Grenoble Cathedral
Patron saint Notre-Dame de l'Assomption
Secular priests117 (diocesan) Decrease
52 (Religious Orders)
43 Permanent Deacons Decrease
Current leadership
Pope Francis
BishopJean-Marc Eychenne
Metropolitan Archbishop Olivier de Germay
Map
Website
diocese-grenoble-vienne.fr

The Diocese of Grenoble–Vienne-les-Allobroges ( Latin: Diocesis Gratianopolitana–Viennensis Allobrogum; Latin: Diocèse de Grenoble–Vienne-les-Allobroges) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in south-eastern France. The diocese, erected in the 4th century as the Diocese of Grenoble, comprises the department of Isère and the former canton of Villeurbanne ( Rhône), in the Region of Rhône-Alpes. In 2006, the name was changed from the diocese of Grenoble to the diocese of Grenoble–Vienne. The current bishop is J ean-Marc Eychenne, appointed on September 14, 2022.

The diocese

Main article: List of bishops of Grenoble

Before the French Revolution Grenoble was a suffragan diocese of the Archbishopric of Vienne and included the deanery of Savoy. In 1779, the deanery was made a diocese in its own right, with the episcopal seat at Chambéry.

By the Concordat of 1801, the bishop of Grenoble was made a suffragan (subordinate) of the Archdiocese of Lyon. Thirteen archipresbyterates of the former Archdiocese of Vienne were affiliated to the Diocese of Grenoble, and there were annexed to it some parishes from the then Diocese of Belley (now Diocese of Belley-Ars), the Diocese of Gap, the Archdiocese of Lyon, and the Diocese of Valence.


Some historically important bishops of Grenoble were:

  • Hugh of Grenoble (1080–1132), noted for his zeal in carrying out Pope Gregory VII's orders concerning reform and for his opposition to the Bishop of Vienne, later Pope Callixtus II
  • Pierre Scarron (1621–1667), who, with the co-operation of many religious orders, restored Catholicism in Dauphiné
  • Jean de Caulet (1726–1771), who brought about general acceptance of the Bull Unigenitus, whose collection of books was the nucleus of the public library of the city.

History

Domninus of Grenoble, the first known Bishop of Grenoble, attended the Council of Aquileia in 381.

Shortly after 945, the territory and city of Grenoble were occupied by the Saracens. The bishop was obliged to flee with his treasures, and took up residence at the priory of S. Donat, in the Rhône just north of Valence. The Saracens were expelled in 965 by forces organized by Bishop Isarnus (949–990). [1] After the threat was gone, Bishop Isarnus rebuilt the cathedral, [2] and initiated a project to repopulate the city and the valley of Graisivaudan (Grévaudan). He settled people of all classes, and, since there were as yet no counts or other nobility in the neignborhood, the bishops became the lords of both the city and the valley. [3]

The diocese of Grenoble is in possession of an almost complete account of the pastoral visits made between 1339 and 1970, a palæographical record perhaps unique of its kind in France.[ citation needed]

Protestantism

From the first half of the thirteenth century the French branch of the Waldenses had its chief seat in Dauphiné, from which country emanated Guillaume Farel, the most captivating preacher of the French Reformation. Pierre de Sébiville, an apostate Carthusian and then an apostate Franciscan, [4] introduced Protestantism into Grenoble in 1522. The diocese was sorely tried by the wars of religion, especially in 1562, when the cruel François de Beaumont, Baron des Andrets, acted as the Prince de Condé's lieutenant-general in Dauphiné.

On 21 August 1615, the Protestant assembly met at Grenoble, and invited King Louis XIII to divert a journey to Bordeaux which he had just begun, to visit Grenoble. [5]

In 1745–1746, 300 Protestants were condemned to flogging, loss of noble status, prison, the galleys, and death by the parliament of Grenoble. [6]

Jesuits

The two sojourns at Grenoble in 1598 and 1600 by Pierre Coton, the Jesuit, later confessor to Henry IV of France, produced many conversions from Protestantism to the Catholic Church. [7] In memory of this, François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières, the Constable of France, himself a convert in 1622, supported the idea of a Jesuit college in the diocese of Grenoble.

The Jesuits established a house in Grenoble in 1622, and attached to it a collège, which, by the end of the 17th century, had 27 teachers; there were 80–100 boarding students and 600–700 day students. By 1700, the institution included theological courses in its curriculum. [8] Here Jacques de Vaucanson, the mechanician who invented the first all-metal lathe, studied.

Around 1673, however, Bishop Étienne Le Camus (1671–1707) became involved in a quarrel with Father Jean-Baptiste St. Just, S.J., the prefect of studies of the Jesuit college in Grenoble. [9] Le Camus had lived at the abbey of La Trappe [10] and at the Jansenist Port-Royal-des-Champs, and was friends and correspondants with Jansenists including Antoine Arnauld le Grand, [11] François Dirois, [12] Pasquier Quesnel, [13] and Sébastien de Camboust de Pontchâteau, [14] giving him a rigorist spiritual, though not Jansenist theological, outlook. From the first, Bishop Le Camus looked upon the Jesuits in his diocese as lax in behavior. [15] He was also in conflict with the Jesuits in Chambéry. [16] He attempted to get local Jesuit superiors to move St. Just to another house, but various people appealed to the parliament of Grenoble, to the Duchess of Savoy, and to the Jesuit General. Le Camus then excommunicated Saint-Just, who appealed to the parliament, an action which brought severe condemnation from the Father General for referring an ecclesiastical matter to a civil court. Though it was admitted that Saint-Just was innocent, he was forced to apologize. [17] He continued to preach and hear confessions. [18]

From the beginning of his episcopate, Bishop Le Camus was also involved in a struggle with the confraternities of his diocese. "Down here, all they know of religion is confraternities, indulgences and congregations." [19] Over the decades since the beginning of the Reformation, the confraternities had become more secularized and more social in nature. Le Camus undertook to recall them to their religious purpose, through tighter supervision and more frequent pastoral visitations. [20] As Joseph Bergin puts it, "...their disapproval of [the confraternities] inevitably appears as a form of killjoy puritanism." [21]

On 21 March 1763, after an investigation lasting eight months, the parliament of the Dauphiné ordered that the Jesuits cease instruction in philosophy, theology, and the humanities. After further questioning, the parliament, on 29 August 1763, ordered the suppression of the Society of Jesus. [22] The congregation was restored by Pope Pius VII on 7 August 1814, with the bull "Sollicitudo omnium." [23]

The French Revolution

Pope Pius VI, when taken a prisoner to France on orders of the Directory, spent two days at Grenoble, from 7 July to 9 July 1799. [24] The Constitutional Bishop of Isère, Henri Reymond, wrote to the pope, seeking an audience, but the letter was returned unopened, and no audience took place. The legitimate bishop, Jean-Marie du Lau d'Allemans, was living in exile, having refused to swear an oath to the French constitution. [25] The pope was taken to Valence, where he died in prison on 20 August 1799. The French Directory, which had ordered his arrest and deportation, fell in the coup engineered by Talleyrand and Napoleon on 10 November 1799.

The coup resulted in the establishment of the French Consulate, with Napoleon as the First Consul. To advance his aggressive military foreign policy, which required him to make peace with the Catholic Church. [26] Negotiations began immediately, and resulted in the Concordat of 1801 (July and August) with Pope Pius VII, which was highly favorable to Napoleon's interests. As under the ancien régime, the nomination to bishoprics belonged to the head of state, and the pope reserved the right to approve or reject the candidate. [27] On 8 April 1802, Napoleon issued a decree, called the "Organic Articles", containing 76 items which he claimed were details, already implicit in the Concordat. They were not. [28]

Particulary vexatious for all the bishops of France, but especially for Bishop Claude Simon of Grenoble, was the 26th article of the "Organic Articles," stating that "the bishops will make no ordination [of priests] before submitting the number of persons to the government to the government for its acceptance." [29] In a letter of 18 April 1809, Bishop Simon complained to the Minister of Cults, "For seven years that I have been bishop of Grenoble, I have ordained thuis far only eight priests; during this period I have lost at least one hundred and fifty. The survivors threaten me with a more rapid gap; either they are infirm, bent with the weight of years, or wearied and overworked. It is therefore urgent that I be authorized to confer sacred orders on those who are old enough and have the necessary instruction." [30] But Napoleon controlled the number of priests ordained in France, and, in the view of Hippolyte Taine, he preferred military conscripts to seminarians or priests, forcing the bishops to appoint retired priests on state pensions, and even ex-constitutional priests. [31] Recourse could not be had to Pope Pius VII, since the Papal States were annexed to the French Empire on 17 May 1809, [32] the pope was arrested, and was deported to France. [33]

Pius VII was kept under guard in the prefecture of Grenoble from 21 July until 2 August 1809, Bishop Claude Simon [34] not being permitted even to visit him. [35]

Religious Orders in Grenoble

The Benedictines and Augustinians founded at an early date numerous priories in the diocese, that of Vizille dating from 994, but during St. Hugh's episcopal administration, monastic life attained a fuller development. The chapter-abbey of Saint-Martin de Miséré, [36] whence originated many Augustinian priories, and the school of the priory of Villard Benoît at Pontcharra, were important during twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

The most notable monastic foundation of Dauphiné, contemporaneous with St. Hugh's regime, was the Carthusian Grand Chartreuse; it was founded in 1084 by Bruno of Cologne in a blind valley 20 mi (32 km) north of Grenoble. It was not subject to the ecclesiastical control of the bishops of Grenoble. [37] The Frères du Saint-Esprit, who during the Middle Ages were scattered broadcast through the Diocese of Grenoble, did much to inculcate among the people habits of mutual assistance.

On 13 February 1790, the Constituent Assembly enacted a law forbidding the taking of vows, and all religious orders and congregations which employed vows were abolished. [38]

In March 1880, in an official report to the President of the French Republic, the Minister of Culture, Charles Lepère, announced that there were more than 500 illegal congregations with more than 22,000 men and women in them. [39] President Jules Grévy immediately signed a decree dissolving the Society of Jesus and ordering them to vacate their establishments within three months. All the other congregations and associations were allowed three months to follow the law of 1825 by registering in their departmental offices and seeking approval from the Council of State. These decrees were applied to the French colonies abroad as well. [40]

Before the enforcement of the law of 1901 there were in the Diocese of Grenoble the following Catholic congregations: the Assumptionists, the Olivétans, the Capuchins, the Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception, [41] the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, [42] Fathers of Holy Ghost and the Holy Heart of Mary, Brothers of the Cross of Jesus (absorbed in 1922 by the Clercs de Saint-Viateur), Brothers of the Holy Family, Brothers of the Christian Schools, [43] and Brothers of the Sacred Heart. The diocesan congregations of women were: the Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, devoted to hospital work and teaching, and founded by Cathiard, who, after having been an officer under Napoleon, died Archpriest of Pont de Beauvoisin; the Sisters of Providence of Corenc, founded in 1841, devoted to hospital duty and teaching (mother-house at St. Marcellin), [44] and the Sisters of Our Lady of the Cross, likewise devoted to hospital and educational work, founded in 1832 (mother-house at Murinais). [45]

Pilgrimage

The principal places of pilgrimage in the present Diocese of Grenoble are: Notre-Dame de Parménie, near Rivers, re-established in the seventeenth century at the instance of a shepherdess; [46] Notre-Dame de l'Osier, at Vinay, which dates from 1649; [47] and Our Lady of La Salette. The shrine of La Salette owes its origin to the reported apparition of the Virgin Mary on 19 September 1846, to Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Calvat; the devotion to Notre-Dame de la Salette was authorized by Bishop Bruillard on 1 May 1852. [48]

Natives of Grenoble

Natives of what constitutes the present Diocese of Grenoble include: Amatus the Anchorite (6th century), the founder of the Abbey of Remiremont; [49] and Peter, Archbishop of Tarantaise (1102–1174), a Cistercian, born at S. Maurice in the ancient Archdiocese of Vienne. [50] Jean-Baptiste Vianney, later known as the Curé of Ars, was ordained asubdeacon in Lyon by Bishop Claude Simon of Grenoble (1802–1825) on 2 July 1814; and a priest in Grenoble on 13 August 1815. [51]

See also

References

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  2. ^ Marion, Cartulaire, p. 98: "Notum sit omnibus fidelibus filiis Gratianopolitanę ecclesię quod, post destructionem paganorum, Isarnus episcopus edificavit ecclesiam Gratianopolitanam."
  3. ^ Reinaud, pp. 198-200. Marion (1869), Cartulaires..., pp. 93-94: "Et ideo, quia paucos invenit habitatores in predicto episcopatu, collegit nobiles, mediocres et pauperes, ex longinquis terris, de quibus hominibus consolata esset Gratianopolitana terra; deditque predictus episcopus illis hominibus castra ad habitandum et terras ad laborandum , in quorum castra sive in terras episcopus jamdictus retinuit dominationem et servitia, sicut utriusque partibus placuit." Archibald Ross Lewis (1965), The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718–1050 (Austin: University of Texas Press 1965), p. 258.
  4. ^ Auguste Prudhomme, Histoire de Grenoble, (in French), (Grenoble: A. Gratier, 1888), pp. 317-319.
  5. ^ Georges Desdevises du Dezert, L'église & l'état en France, (in French), Vol. 1 (Paris: Société Française d'Imprimerie et de Libraire, 1907), p. 22.
  6. ^ Desdevises du Dezert, L'église & l'état en France Vol. 1, pp. 228-229.
  7. ^ William A. McComish, The Epigones: A Study of the Theology of the Genevan Academy at the Time of the Synod of Dort, with Special Reference to Giovanni Diodati, (Eugene OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1989), pp. 132-133. Pierre Joseph d'Orléans, La vie du Pere Pierre Coton, (in French), Paris: Estienne Michallet 1688), pp. 33-38. Eugène Arnaud, Notice sur les controverses religieuses en Dauphiné Pendant la période de l'édit de Nantes, (in French), (Grenoble: Allier 1872), pp. 12-16.
  8. ^ Bellet, p. 141.
  9. ^ Charles-Félix Bellet, Histoire du Cardinal Le Camus, évêque et prince de Grenoble, (in French), (Paris: Alphonse Picard, 1886), pp. 139-154.
  10. ^ Ingold, p. 103.
  11. ^ Ingold, pp. 103, 110, 230.
  12. ^ Ingold, p. xi-xii.
  13. ^ Ingold, pp. xi, 200, 212, 223, 234.
  14. ^ Ingold, p. viii.
  15. ^ He wrote to Louis XIV, whose almoner he had once been, on 18 June 1678 (Ingold, p. 308): "c'est qu'il y a un Jésuite en ce diocèse, nommé le Père de Saint-Just, qui a commis tant de fautes dont je ne me suis expliqué à personne pour ne point blesser la charité, qui font que je n'ai pas cru pouvoir, en conscience, lui permettre plus longtemps de prêcher et de confesser."
  16. ^ A letter to Antoine Artaud (12 December 1673), in: Ingold, pp. 110-114: "Touchant la désobéissance des Jésuites de Chambéry, si je dois la dissimuler, attendu la cabale formée de tous les religieux contre mon autorité et que tous les gens de condition s'y trouvent intéressés à cause de la congrégation, ou si je dois éclater, et de quel genre de punition, ou par interdiction du recteur, ou de toute leur église ou communauté, après avoir informé du scandale et de la désobéissance."
  17. ^ Barbara Frances Mary Neave, The Jesuits: Their Foundation and History Vol. 2 (New York: Benziger Brothers, 1879), pp. 43-44.
  18. ^ Bellet, p. 146.
  19. ^ Le Camus, cited by Joseph Bergin, Church, Society and Religious Change in France, 1580-1730 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 361.
  20. ^ Bernard Dompnier, "Les Confréries du diocèse de Grenoble, d'après les visites pastorales (1665–1757)," (in French), in: Les Confréries, l'église et la cité (Grenoble 1988), pp. 39-54.
  21. ^ Bergin, p. 361.
  22. ^ Prudhomme, Histoire de Grenoble, pp. 536-537.
  23. ^ Bullarii Romani continuatio, (in Latin), Tomus decimus tertius (13), (Roma: Typographia Camerae Apostolicae 1847), pp. 323-325.
  24. ^ Ludwig von Pastor, The History of the Popes, Vol. XL (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1953), pp. 382-383.
  25. ^ Pietro Baldassari, Histoire de l'enlèvement et de la captivité de Pie VI, (in French), (Bruxelles: Ve J.-J. Vanderborght, 1840), pp. 444-450.
  26. ^ Hippolyte Taine, The Origins of Contemporary France. The Modern Régime, Volume 1 (H. Holt, 1890), p. 153.
  27. ^ Émile Sévestre, L'histoire, le texte et la destinée du Concordat de 1801, (in French and Latin), 2nd edition (Paris: Lethielleux, 1905), pp. 244-246, 485. Jules Baissac, Le Concordat de 1801 et les articles organiques, (in French), (Paris: Sandoz et Fischbacher, 1879), p. 5: "Art. V. Les nominations aux évêchés qui vaqueront dans la suite seront également faites par le premier consul, et l'institution canonique sera donnée par le Saint-Siège, en conformité de l'article précédent." "Item Consul Primus ad Episcopales Sedes quae in posterum vacaverint novos Antistites nominabit, iisque ut in articulo praecedenti constitutum est, Apostolica Sedes Canonicam dabit Institutionem." "Art. XVI. Sa Sainteté reconnaît, dans le premier consul de la République française , les mêmes droits et prérogatives dont jouissait près d'elle l'ancien gouvernement."
  28. ^ Sévestre, L'histoire, le texte et la destinée du Concordat de 1801, pp. 489-495.
  29. ^ Sévestre, L'histoire, le texte et la destinée du Concordat de 1801, pp. 491: "Les évêques ne feront aucune ordination avant que le nombre des personnes à ordonner ait été soumis au Gouvernement , et par lui agréé."
  30. ^ Taine, The Origins of Contemporary France. The Modern Régime,, I, p. 191, note 3.
  31. ^ Taine, p. 191.
  32. ^ Bollettino delle leggi e decreti imperiali pubblicati dalla Consulta straordinaria negli Stati Romani, (in Italian and French), Volume 1 (Roma: L.P. Salvioni, 1809), pp. 3-4.
  33. ^ Fredrik Nielsen, The History of the Papacy in the XIXth Century, Volume 1 (London: John Murray 1906), pp. 296-300.
  34. ^ Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VII, p. 206.
  35. ^ Ilario Rinieri, La diplomazia pontificia nel secolo XIX, (in Italian), Vol. 3, part 2 (Torino: Unione tipograficoa, 1906), p. 7.
  36. ^ Hauréau, Gallia christiana XVI, pp. 265-268.
  37. ^ Cyprien Boutrais, La Grande Chartreuse, (in French), 4th edition (Lyon: A. Cote, 1891), pp. 19, 26-34.
  38. ^ William Milligan Sloane, The French Revolution and Religious Reform (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1901), pp. 179-180. François-Alphonse Aulard, Christianity and the French Revolution (Boston: Little, Brown, 1927), p. 53.
  39. ^ [Un magistrat], L'Etat et les congrégations religieuses: étude d'histoire et de droit sur les décrets du 29 mars 1880 et les lois existantes, (in French), (Paris: A. Quantin, 1880), p. 74.
  40. ^ L'Etat et les congrégations religieuses: étude d'histoire et de droit sur les décrets du 29 mars 1880 et les lois existantes pp. 76-78.
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  42. ^ Dale & Steele, Monasteries and Religious Houses of Great Britain and Ireland p. 150.
  43. ^ Dale & Steele, Monasteries and Religious Houses of Great Britain and Ireland pp. 40-45.
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  45. ^ Jean Marie Prat, Adèle de Murinais, Fondatrice de la Congrégation des Soeurs de Notre-Dame de la Croix, (in French) (Lyon: Jacques Lecoffre, 1872), pp. 266-295.
  46. ^ André Jean Marie Hamon, Notre-Dame de France ou Histoire du culte de la Sainte Vierge en France, depuis l'origine du christianisme jusqu'à nos jours, (in French) Volume 6 (Paris: H. Plon, 1866), pp. 449-453.
  47. ^ Hamon, Notre-Dame de France..., Volume 6, pp. 453-457.
  48. ^ James Spencer Northcote, A Pilgrimage to La Salette; Or, A Critical Examination of All the Facts Connected with the Alleged Apparition of the Blessed Virgin to Two Children on the Mountain of La Salette, on Sep. 19, 1846, (London: Burns and Lambert, 1852), pp. 14-19. Louis Carlier, L'apparition de Notre-Dame sur la montagne de la Salette, (in French) 2nd edition (Tournai: Miss. de la Salette, 1907), p. 51.
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Studies

External links

  • Goyau, Georges. "Grenoble", in: The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 7 (New York: Appleton 1910), pp. 26-28.

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Diocese of Grenoble–Vienne-les-Allobroges

Dioecesis Gratianopolitana–Viennensis Allobrogum

Diocèse de Grenoble–Vienne-les-Allobroges
Grenoble Cathedral
Location
CountryFrance
Metropolitan Lyon
Archdeaconries Archdiocese of Lyon
Statistics
Area7,467 km2 (2,883 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2021)
1,288,000 (est.)
816,870 (est.) Decrease
Parishes47
Information
Denomination Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established4th Century
Cathedral Grenoble Cathedral
Patron saint Notre-Dame de l'Assomption
Secular priests117 (diocesan) Decrease
52 (Religious Orders)
43 Permanent Deacons Decrease
Current leadership
Pope Francis
BishopJean-Marc Eychenne
Metropolitan Archbishop Olivier de Germay
Map
Website
diocese-grenoble-vienne.fr

The Diocese of Grenoble–Vienne-les-Allobroges ( Latin: Diocesis Gratianopolitana–Viennensis Allobrogum; Latin: Diocèse de Grenoble–Vienne-les-Allobroges) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in south-eastern France. The diocese, erected in the 4th century as the Diocese of Grenoble, comprises the department of Isère and the former canton of Villeurbanne ( Rhône), in the Region of Rhône-Alpes. In 2006, the name was changed from the diocese of Grenoble to the diocese of Grenoble–Vienne. The current bishop is J ean-Marc Eychenne, appointed on September 14, 2022.

The diocese

Main article: List of bishops of Grenoble

Before the French Revolution Grenoble was a suffragan diocese of the Archbishopric of Vienne and included the deanery of Savoy. In 1779, the deanery was made a diocese in its own right, with the episcopal seat at Chambéry.

By the Concordat of 1801, the bishop of Grenoble was made a suffragan (subordinate) of the Archdiocese of Lyon. Thirteen archipresbyterates of the former Archdiocese of Vienne were affiliated to the Diocese of Grenoble, and there were annexed to it some parishes from the then Diocese of Belley (now Diocese of Belley-Ars), the Diocese of Gap, the Archdiocese of Lyon, and the Diocese of Valence.


Some historically important bishops of Grenoble were:

  • Hugh of Grenoble (1080–1132), noted for his zeal in carrying out Pope Gregory VII's orders concerning reform and for his opposition to the Bishop of Vienne, later Pope Callixtus II
  • Pierre Scarron (1621–1667), who, with the co-operation of many religious orders, restored Catholicism in Dauphiné
  • Jean de Caulet (1726–1771), who brought about general acceptance of the Bull Unigenitus, whose collection of books was the nucleus of the public library of the city.

History

Domninus of Grenoble, the first known Bishop of Grenoble, attended the Council of Aquileia in 381.

Shortly after 945, the territory and city of Grenoble were occupied by the Saracens. The bishop was obliged to flee with his treasures, and took up residence at the priory of S. Donat, in the Rhône just north of Valence. The Saracens were expelled in 965 by forces organized by Bishop Isarnus (949–990). [1] After the threat was gone, Bishop Isarnus rebuilt the cathedral, [2] and initiated a project to repopulate the city and the valley of Graisivaudan (Grévaudan). He settled people of all classes, and, since there were as yet no counts or other nobility in the neignborhood, the bishops became the lords of both the city and the valley. [3]

The diocese of Grenoble is in possession of an almost complete account of the pastoral visits made between 1339 and 1970, a palæographical record perhaps unique of its kind in France.[ citation needed]

Protestantism

From the first half of the thirteenth century the French branch of the Waldenses had its chief seat in Dauphiné, from which country emanated Guillaume Farel, the most captivating preacher of the French Reformation. Pierre de Sébiville, an apostate Carthusian and then an apostate Franciscan, [4] introduced Protestantism into Grenoble in 1522. The diocese was sorely tried by the wars of religion, especially in 1562, when the cruel François de Beaumont, Baron des Andrets, acted as the Prince de Condé's lieutenant-general in Dauphiné.

On 21 August 1615, the Protestant assembly met at Grenoble, and invited King Louis XIII to divert a journey to Bordeaux which he had just begun, to visit Grenoble. [5]

In 1745–1746, 300 Protestants were condemned to flogging, loss of noble status, prison, the galleys, and death by the parliament of Grenoble. [6]

Jesuits

The two sojourns at Grenoble in 1598 and 1600 by Pierre Coton, the Jesuit, later confessor to Henry IV of France, produced many conversions from Protestantism to the Catholic Church. [7] In memory of this, François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières, the Constable of France, himself a convert in 1622, supported the idea of a Jesuit college in the diocese of Grenoble.

The Jesuits established a house in Grenoble in 1622, and attached to it a collège, which, by the end of the 17th century, had 27 teachers; there were 80–100 boarding students and 600–700 day students. By 1700, the institution included theological courses in its curriculum. [8] Here Jacques de Vaucanson, the mechanician who invented the first all-metal lathe, studied.

Around 1673, however, Bishop Étienne Le Camus (1671–1707) became involved in a quarrel with Father Jean-Baptiste St. Just, S.J., the prefect of studies of the Jesuit college in Grenoble. [9] Le Camus had lived at the abbey of La Trappe [10] and at the Jansenist Port-Royal-des-Champs, and was friends and correspondants with Jansenists including Antoine Arnauld le Grand, [11] François Dirois, [12] Pasquier Quesnel, [13] and Sébastien de Camboust de Pontchâteau, [14] giving him a rigorist spiritual, though not Jansenist theological, outlook. From the first, Bishop Le Camus looked upon the Jesuits in his diocese as lax in behavior. [15] He was also in conflict with the Jesuits in Chambéry. [16] He attempted to get local Jesuit superiors to move St. Just to another house, but various people appealed to the parliament of Grenoble, to the Duchess of Savoy, and to the Jesuit General. Le Camus then excommunicated Saint-Just, who appealed to the parliament, an action which brought severe condemnation from the Father General for referring an ecclesiastical matter to a civil court. Though it was admitted that Saint-Just was innocent, he was forced to apologize. [17] He continued to preach and hear confessions. [18]

From the beginning of his episcopate, Bishop Le Camus was also involved in a struggle with the confraternities of his diocese. "Down here, all they know of religion is confraternities, indulgences and congregations." [19] Over the decades since the beginning of the Reformation, the confraternities had become more secularized and more social in nature. Le Camus undertook to recall them to their religious purpose, through tighter supervision and more frequent pastoral visitations. [20] As Joseph Bergin puts it, "...their disapproval of [the confraternities] inevitably appears as a form of killjoy puritanism." [21]

On 21 March 1763, after an investigation lasting eight months, the parliament of the Dauphiné ordered that the Jesuits cease instruction in philosophy, theology, and the humanities. After further questioning, the parliament, on 29 August 1763, ordered the suppression of the Society of Jesus. [22] The congregation was restored by Pope Pius VII on 7 August 1814, with the bull "Sollicitudo omnium." [23]

The French Revolution

Pope Pius VI, when taken a prisoner to France on orders of the Directory, spent two days at Grenoble, from 7 July to 9 July 1799. [24] The Constitutional Bishop of Isère, Henri Reymond, wrote to the pope, seeking an audience, but the letter was returned unopened, and no audience took place. The legitimate bishop, Jean-Marie du Lau d'Allemans, was living in exile, having refused to swear an oath to the French constitution. [25] The pope was taken to Valence, where he died in prison on 20 August 1799. The French Directory, which had ordered his arrest and deportation, fell in the coup engineered by Talleyrand and Napoleon on 10 November 1799.

The coup resulted in the establishment of the French Consulate, with Napoleon as the First Consul. To advance his aggressive military foreign policy, which required him to make peace with the Catholic Church. [26] Negotiations began immediately, and resulted in the Concordat of 1801 (July and August) with Pope Pius VII, which was highly favorable to Napoleon's interests. As under the ancien régime, the nomination to bishoprics belonged to the head of state, and the pope reserved the right to approve or reject the candidate. [27] On 8 April 1802, Napoleon issued a decree, called the "Organic Articles", containing 76 items which he claimed were details, already implicit in the Concordat. They were not. [28]

Particulary vexatious for all the bishops of France, but especially for Bishop Claude Simon of Grenoble, was the 26th article of the "Organic Articles," stating that "the bishops will make no ordination [of priests] before submitting the number of persons to the government to the government for its acceptance." [29] In a letter of 18 April 1809, Bishop Simon complained to the Minister of Cults, "For seven years that I have been bishop of Grenoble, I have ordained thuis far only eight priests; during this period I have lost at least one hundred and fifty. The survivors threaten me with a more rapid gap; either they are infirm, bent with the weight of years, or wearied and overworked. It is therefore urgent that I be authorized to confer sacred orders on those who are old enough and have the necessary instruction." [30] But Napoleon controlled the number of priests ordained in France, and, in the view of Hippolyte Taine, he preferred military conscripts to seminarians or priests, forcing the bishops to appoint retired priests on state pensions, and even ex-constitutional priests. [31] Recourse could not be had to Pope Pius VII, since the Papal States were annexed to the French Empire on 17 May 1809, [32] the pope was arrested, and was deported to France. [33]

Pius VII was kept under guard in the prefecture of Grenoble from 21 July until 2 August 1809, Bishop Claude Simon [34] not being permitted even to visit him. [35]

Religious Orders in Grenoble

The Benedictines and Augustinians founded at an early date numerous priories in the diocese, that of Vizille dating from 994, but during St. Hugh's episcopal administration, monastic life attained a fuller development. The chapter-abbey of Saint-Martin de Miséré, [36] whence originated many Augustinian priories, and the school of the priory of Villard Benoît at Pontcharra, were important during twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

The most notable monastic foundation of Dauphiné, contemporaneous with St. Hugh's regime, was the Carthusian Grand Chartreuse; it was founded in 1084 by Bruno of Cologne in a blind valley 20 mi (32 km) north of Grenoble. It was not subject to the ecclesiastical control of the bishops of Grenoble. [37] The Frères du Saint-Esprit, who during the Middle Ages were scattered broadcast through the Diocese of Grenoble, did much to inculcate among the people habits of mutual assistance.

On 13 February 1790, the Constituent Assembly enacted a law forbidding the taking of vows, and all religious orders and congregations which employed vows were abolished. [38]

In March 1880, in an official report to the President of the French Republic, the Minister of Culture, Charles Lepère, announced that there were more than 500 illegal congregations with more than 22,000 men and women in them. [39] President Jules Grévy immediately signed a decree dissolving the Society of Jesus and ordering them to vacate their establishments within three months. All the other congregations and associations were allowed three months to follow the law of 1825 by registering in their departmental offices and seeking approval from the Council of State. These decrees were applied to the French colonies abroad as well. [40]

Before the enforcement of the law of 1901 there were in the Diocese of Grenoble the following Catholic congregations: the Assumptionists, the Olivétans, the Capuchins, the Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception, [41] the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, [42] Fathers of Holy Ghost and the Holy Heart of Mary, Brothers of the Cross of Jesus (absorbed in 1922 by the Clercs de Saint-Viateur), Brothers of the Holy Family, Brothers of the Christian Schools, [43] and Brothers of the Sacred Heart. The diocesan congregations of women were: the Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, devoted to hospital work and teaching, and founded by Cathiard, who, after having been an officer under Napoleon, died Archpriest of Pont de Beauvoisin; the Sisters of Providence of Corenc, founded in 1841, devoted to hospital duty and teaching (mother-house at St. Marcellin), [44] and the Sisters of Our Lady of the Cross, likewise devoted to hospital and educational work, founded in 1832 (mother-house at Murinais). [45]

Pilgrimage

The principal places of pilgrimage in the present Diocese of Grenoble are: Notre-Dame de Parménie, near Rivers, re-established in the seventeenth century at the instance of a shepherdess; [46] Notre-Dame de l'Osier, at Vinay, which dates from 1649; [47] and Our Lady of La Salette. The shrine of La Salette owes its origin to the reported apparition of the Virgin Mary on 19 September 1846, to Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Calvat; the devotion to Notre-Dame de la Salette was authorized by Bishop Bruillard on 1 May 1852. [48]

Natives of Grenoble

Natives of what constitutes the present Diocese of Grenoble include: Amatus the Anchorite (6th century), the founder of the Abbey of Remiremont; [49] and Peter, Archbishop of Tarantaise (1102–1174), a Cistercian, born at S. Maurice in the ancient Archdiocese of Vienne. [50] Jean-Baptiste Vianney, later known as the Curé of Ars, was ordained asubdeacon in Lyon by Bishop Claude Simon of Grenoble (1802–1825) on 2 July 1814; and a priest in Grenoble on 13 August 1815. [51]

See also

References

  1. ^ Joseph Toussaint Reinaud, Invasions des Sarrazins en France, et de France en Savoie, en Piémont et dans la Suisse, pendant les 8e, 9e, et 10e siècles, (in French), 1836), pp. 180-181, 198. Le Camus, pp. 11-12.
  2. ^ Marion, Cartulaire, p. 98: "Notum sit omnibus fidelibus filiis Gratianopolitanę ecclesię quod, post destructionem paganorum, Isarnus episcopus edificavit ecclesiam Gratianopolitanam."
  3. ^ Reinaud, pp. 198-200. Marion (1869), Cartulaires..., pp. 93-94: "Et ideo, quia paucos invenit habitatores in predicto episcopatu, collegit nobiles, mediocres et pauperes, ex longinquis terris, de quibus hominibus consolata esset Gratianopolitana terra; deditque predictus episcopus illis hominibus castra ad habitandum et terras ad laborandum , in quorum castra sive in terras episcopus jamdictus retinuit dominationem et servitia, sicut utriusque partibus placuit." Archibald Ross Lewis (1965), The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718–1050 (Austin: University of Texas Press 1965), p. 258.
  4. ^ Auguste Prudhomme, Histoire de Grenoble, (in French), (Grenoble: A. Gratier, 1888), pp. 317-319.
  5. ^ Georges Desdevises du Dezert, L'église & l'état en France, (in French), Vol. 1 (Paris: Société Française d'Imprimerie et de Libraire, 1907), p. 22.
  6. ^ Desdevises du Dezert, L'église & l'état en France Vol. 1, pp. 228-229.
  7. ^ William A. McComish, The Epigones: A Study of the Theology of the Genevan Academy at the Time of the Synod of Dort, with Special Reference to Giovanni Diodati, (Eugene OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1989), pp. 132-133. Pierre Joseph d'Orléans, La vie du Pere Pierre Coton, (in French), Paris: Estienne Michallet 1688), pp. 33-38. Eugène Arnaud, Notice sur les controverses religieuses en Dauphiné Pendant la période de l'édit de Nantes, (in French), (Grenoble: Allier 1872), pp. 12-16.
  8. ^ Bellet, p. 141.
  9. ^ Charles-Félix Bellet, Histoire du Cardinal Le Camus, évêque et prince de Grenoble, (in French), (Paris: Alphonse Picard, 1886), pp. 139-154.
  10. ^ Ingold, p. 103.
  11. ^ Ingold, pp. 103, 110, 230.
  12. ^ Ingold, p. xi-xii.
  13. ^ Ingold, pp. xi, 200, 212, 223, 234.
  14. ^ Ingold, p. viii.
  15. ^ He wrote to Louis XIV, whose almoner he had once been, on 18 June 1678 (Ingold, p. 308): "c'est qu'il y a un Jésuite en ce diocèse, nommé le Père de Saint-Just, qui a commis tant de fautes dont je ne me suis expliqué à personne pour ne point blesser la charité, qui font que je n'ai pas cru pouvoir, en conscience, lui permettre plus longtemps de prêcher et de confesser."
  16. ^ A letter to Antoine Artaud (12 December 1673), in: Ingold, pp. 110-114: "Touchant la désobéissance des Jésuites de Chambéry, si je dois la dissimuler, attendu la cabale formée de tous les religieux contre mon autorité et que tous les gens de condition s'y trouvent intéressés à cause de la congrégation, ou si je dois éclater, et de quel genre de punition, ou par interdiction du recteur, ou de toute leur église ou communauté, après avoir informé du scandale et de la désobéissance."
  17. ^ Barbara Frances Mary Neave, The Jesuits: Their Foundation and History Vol. 2 (New York: Benziger Brothers, 1879), pp. 43-44.
  18. ^ Bellet, p. 146.
  19. ^ Le Camus, cited by Joseph Bergin, Church, Society and Religious Change in France, 1580-1730 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 361.
  20. ^ Bernard Dompnier, "Les Confréries du diocèse de Grenoble, d'après les visites pastorales (1665–1757)," (in French), in: Les Confréries, l'église et la cité (Grenoble 1988), pp. 39-54.
  21. ^ Bergin, p. 361.
  22. ^ Prudhomme, Histoire de Grenoble, pp. 536-537.
  23. ^ Bullarii Romani continuatio, (in Latin), Tomus decimus tertius (13), (Roma: Typographia Camerae Apostolicae 1847), pp. 323-325.
  24. ^ Ludwig von Pastor, The History of the Popes, Vol. XL (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1953), pp. 382-383.
  25. ^ Pietro Baldassari, Histoire de l'enlèvement et de la captivité de Pie VI, (in French), (Bruxelles: Ve J.-J. Vanderborght, 1840), pp. 444-450.
  26. ^ Hippolyte Taine, The Origins of Contemporary France. The Modern Régime, Volume 1 (H. Holt, 1890), p. 153.
  27. ^ Émile Sévestre, L'histoire, le texte et la destinée du Concordat de 1801, (in French and Latin), 2nd edition (Paris: Lethielleux, 1905), pp. 244-246, 485. Jules Baissac, Le Concordat de 1801 et les articles organiques, (in French), (Paris: Sandoz et Fischbacher, 1879), p. 5: "Art. V. Les nominations aux évêchés qui vaqueront dans la suite seront également faites par le premier consul, et l'institution canonique sera donnée par le Saint-Siège, en conformité de l'article précédent." "Item Consul Primus ad Episcopales Sedes quae in posterum vacaverint novos Antistites nominabit, iisque ut in articulo praecedenti constitutum est, Apostolica Sedes Canonicam dabit Institutionem." "Art. XVI. Sa Sainteté reconnaît, dans le premier consul de la République française , les mêmes droits et prérogatives dont jouissait près d'elle l'ancien gouvernement."
  28. ^ Sévestre, L'histoire, le texte et la destinée du Concordat de 1801, pp. 489-495.
  29. ^ Sévestre, L'histoire, le texte et la destinée du Concordat de 1801, pp. 491: "Les évêques ne feront aucune ordination avant que le nombre des personnes à ordonner ait été soumis au Gouvernement , et par lui agréé."
  30. ^ Taine, The Origins of Contemporary France. The Modern Régime,, I, p. 191, note 3.
  31. ^ Taine, p. 191.
  32. ^ Bollettino delle leggi e decreti imperiali pubblicati dalla Consulta straordinaria negli Stati Romani, (in Italian and French), Volume 1 (Roma: L.P. Salvioni, 1809), pp. 3-4.
  33. ^ Fredrik Nielsen, The History of the Papacy in the XIXth Century, Volume 1 (London: John Murray 1906), pp. 296-300.
  34. ^ Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VII, p. 206.
  35. ^ Ilario Rinieri, La diplomazia pontificia nel secolo XIX, (in Italian), Vol. 3, part 2 (Torino: Unione tipograficoa, 1906), p. 7.
  36. ^ Hauréau, Gallia christiana XVI, pp. 265-268.
  37. ^ Cyprien Boutrais, La Grande Chartreuse, (in French), 4th edition (Lyon: A. Cote, 1891), pp. 19, 26-34.
  38. ^ William Milligan Sloane, The French Revolution and Religious Reform (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1901), pp. 179-180. François-Alphonse Aulard, Christianity and the French Revolution (Boston: Little, Brown, 1927), p. 53.
  39. ^ [Un magistrat], L'Etat et les congrégations religieuses: étude d'histoire et de droit sur les décrets du 29 mars 1880 et les lois existantes, (in French), (Paris: A. Quantin, 1880), p. 74.
  40. ^ L'Etat et les congrégations religieuses: étude d'histoire et de droit sur les décrets du 29 mars 1880 et les lois existantes pp. 76-78.
  41. ^ Dale, Darley; Steele, Francesca Maria, Monasteries and Religious Houses of Great Britain and Ireland (London: R. & T. Washbourne, 1903), p. 223.
  42. ^ Dale & Steele, Monasteries and Religious Houses of Great Britain and Ireland p. 150.
  43. ^ Dale & Steele, Monasteries and Religious Houses of Great Britain and Ireland pp. 40-45.
  44. ^ Albert Dubois, Notre-Dame de la Providence: son histoire et son culte, (in French), (Paris: Librairie Saint Paul, 1908), p. 414.
  45. ^ Jean Marie Prat, Adèle de Murinais, Fondatrice de la Congrégation des Soeurs de Notre-Dame de la Croix, (in French) (Lyon: Jacques Lecoffre, 1872), pp. 266-295.
  46. ^ André Jean Marie Hamon, Notre-Dame de France ou Histoire du culte de la Sainte Vierge en France, depuis l'origine du christianisme jusqu'à nos jours, (in French) Volume 6 (Paris: H. Plon, 1866), pp. 449-453.
  47. ^ Hamon, Notre-Dame de France..., Volume 6, pp. 453-457.
  48. ^ James Spencer Northcote, A Pilgrimage to La Salette; Or, A Critical Examination of All the Facts Connected with the Alleged Apparition of the Blessed Virgin to Two Children on the Mountain of La Salette, on Sep. 19, 1846, (London: Burns and Lambert, 1852), pp. 14-19. Louis Carlier, L'apparition de Notre-Dame sur la montagne de la Salette, (in French) 2nd edition (Tournai: Miss. de la Salette, 1907), p. 51.
  49. ^ A. Guinot, Étude historique sur l'Abbaye de Remiremont, (in French), (Paris: C. Douniol, 1859), pp. 5-26.
  50. ^ Joseph-Antoine Besson, Memoires pour l'histoire ecclesiastique des dioceses de Geneve, Tarantaise, Aoste et Maurienne, (in French), (Moutiers: Marc Cane, 1871), pp. 194-202.
  51. ^ Alfred Monnin, Life of the Curé D'Ars, (London: Burns & Lambert, 1862), p. 44. Joseph Vianey, Le bienheureux curé d'Ars [Jean Marie Vianney]: patron des curés français (1786-1859), 4th edition (in French), (Paris: V. Lecoffre, 1906), pp. 25-27, who states that the priestly ordination took place in the former church of the Minims, which was serving as the chapel of the Major Seminary of Grenoble.

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Studies

External links

  • Goyau, Georges. "Grenoble", in: The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 7 (New York: Appleton 1910), pp. 26-28.

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