BAILLET (BALLYET), BRUNE. - Discalced Carmelite (in religion Emanuele di S. Alberto); b. 21 Nov. 1702 at Marnay (Besançon, France), d. at Baghdad on 4 Apr. 1773. Ordained priest, he entered the seminary for the missions in Rome, whence in 1828 he went to Baghdad. Since the bishop then in office, Varlet, had been excommunicated as a supporter of Jansenism, in 1733 B. was elected apostolic vicar of Babylon, and upon the death of the incumbent (1742) he was raised to that see; moreover, the king of France appointed him consul at Baghdad (1741). He died of the plague, together with all his missionaries. He addressed an interesting report, De initio, progressu, et praesenti statu Dioecesis et Missionis Babyloniae, to Benedict XIV (printed in Rome in 1754).
BIBL: Ambrosius a S. Teresia, Hierarch. Carm., II, Rome 1934, pp. 66-80; Le Carmel, Agen 1936-37, pp. 14-22; Anon., A Chronicle of Carmelites in Persia, a. die Papal Mission of the XVII and XVIII century, II, London 1939, pp. 867-77. Ambrogio di Santa Teresa