Stanislas Touchet Explained

Type:Cardinal
Honorific Prefix:His Eminence
Stanislas Touchet
Bishop of Orléans
Church:Roman Catholic Church
Diocese:Orléans
See:Orléans
Appointed:18 May 1894
Term End:23 September 1926
Predecessor:Pierre-Hector Coullié
Successor:Jules-Marie-Victor Courcoux
Other Post:Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria sopra Minerva (1922-26)
Ordination:29 June 1872
Consecration:15 July 1894
Consecrated By:Flavien-Abel-Antoinin Hugonin
Cardinal:11 December 1922
Created Cardinal By:Pope Pius XI
Rank:Cardinal-Priest
Birth Name:Stanislas-Arthur-Xavier Touchet
Birth Date:13 November 1842
Birth Place:Soliers, French Kingdom
Death Place:Orléans, French Third Republic
Buried:Orléans Cathedral
Parents:Louis Modeste Touchet
Stéphanie Félicité Ducellier
Motto:Jesus Maria spes ac robur
Stanislas Touchet
Dipstyle:His Eminence
Offstyle:Your Eminence
See:none

Stanislas-Arthur-Xavier Touchet (13 November 1842 – 23 September 1926) was a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Orléans from 1894 until his death, and became a cardinal in 1922.

Biography

Stanislas Touchet was born in Soliers, and studied at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris. He was ordained to the priesthood on 13 June 1872, and then did pastoral work in the Archdiocese of Besançon until 1894.

On 18 May 1894, Touchet was appointed Bishop of Orléans by Pope Leo XIII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 15 July from Bishop Flavien-Abel Hugonin, with Bishops Abel-Anastase Germain and Charles-Bonaventure Theuret serving as co-consecrators, in the Besançon Cathedral.

After becoming an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne on 19 June 1922, Touchet was created Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria sopra Minerva by Pope Pius XI in the consistory of 11 December of that same year.[1] He would serve as Bishop of Orléans for a period of thirty-two years.

He was also a Knight of the Legion of Honour.[2]

He died in Orléans, at the age of 77, and is buried in its Cathedral.

Some of the Books Written by him:

  1. Retraites spirituelles[3]
  2. La sainte de la patrie[4]
  3. Vie de sainte Jeanne d'Arc
  4. Pour les Arméniens
  5. Panégyrique de Jeanne d'Arc
  6. Ce que fut Jeanne d'Arc
  7. Oeuvres choisies
  8. La mission de la vénérable Jeanne d'Ar
  9. Aux infirmières de France

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1922.htm Florida International University website, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Biographical Dictionary, Pope Pius XI (1922-1939)
  2. https://www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/ui/notice/360388 France Ministry of Culture website, Notice 360388
  3. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Retraites_spirituelles.html?id=45kTzgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y Google Books website, Retraites spirituelles
  4. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/La_sainte_de_la_patrie.html?id=XCkpzgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y Google Books website, La sainte de la patrie