Also known as:
French: Elie de Bourdeilles, Hélie de Bourdeilles
BOURDEILLES, HÉLIE. - Franciscan, cardinal, b. in the castle of Bourdeilles (Périgueux) between 1410-15, d. in the castle of Artennes (Tours) on 5 July 1484. Elected bishop of Périgueux (1437) by the cathedral chapter, promoted (1468) to archbishop of Tours, he was created cardinal by Sixtus IV in 1483.
Austere and zealous, he attended not only to the reform of the two dioceses, but strenuously defended the rights and liberty of the Church, first, in 1452, protesting against the reapplication of the "Pragmatic Sanction" by Charles VII; then pleading before Louis XI, whose confessor he was, the cause of Cardinal La Balue and of the bishop of Verdun, guilty, but condemned and imprisoned in violation of ecclesiastical immunities; as a member of the commission for the revision of the trial of St. Joan of Arc, he wrote one of the best defenses of her.
His deep piety, his great charity toward the poor, and certain extraordinary events that occurred at his tomb, caused him to be proclaimed blessed; and in 1526 the process of canonization was introduced. In the Martyrologium Franciscanum (ed. I. Beschin-J. Palazzolo, Rome 1938) his feast is celebrated, as that of a blessed, on 5 July (op. cit., p. 249).
Principal works: Pro pragmaticae sanctiunii abrogatione (Rome 1486); Defensio concordatorum (Paris 1520); Consideration sur la Pucelle de France, appended to the rehabilitation trial.
Bibliography3 worksB. T. Pouan, Le S. Card. Hélie de B., Mémoire historique, 2 vols., Neville-sous-Montreuil 1900; Acta Ord. Fratrum Minorum, 50 (1931), p. 50,
BIBL.: B. T. Pouan, Le S. Card. Hélie de B., Mémoire historique, 2 vols., Neville-sous-Montreuil 1900; Acta Ord. Fratrum Minorum, 50 (1931), p. 50, n. 113; P. Calendini, in DHG, IX, 148-49.
Testore, Celestino. “Bourdeilles, hélie.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 1984. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/bourdeilles-helie.
MLA
Testore, Celestino. “Bourdeilles, hélie.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1984. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/bourdeilles-helie.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec2_bourdeilles_helie,
author = {Testore, Celestino},
title = {Bourdeilles, hélie},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
pages = {1984},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/bourdeilles-helie}
}
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