CHAPT DE RASTIGNAC, ARMAND. - Illustrious ecclesiastic, b. in 1726 in the castle of Lanion in Périgord and d. in Paris on Sept. 5, 1792. After graduating from the Sorbonne he was in the care of souls first at St-Mesmin d'Orléans, then at St-Martin of Tours, finally becoming vicar general of the diocese of Arles.
A deputy to the assembly of the clergy in 1755 and 1760 and to the Estates General in 1789, he fulfilled his mandate with dignity in defense of the rights of the Church and of his own station. Arrested at l'Abbaye on Aug. 26, 1792, he was one of the illustrious victims of the following Sept. 5. Compelled to write by the weakness of his voice, which prevented him from fulfilling his mandate as deputy from the rostrum of the Parliament, he fought in his publications the sectarian high-handedness of the French Constituent Assembly against the Church, demonstrating its incompetence in matters of religion.
He wrote: Question sur la propriété des biens ecclésiastiques en France (Paris 1789); Lettre synodale de Nicolas, patriarche de Constantinople, à l'empereur Alexis Comnène, sur le pouvoir des empereurs relativement à l'érection des métropoles ecclésiastiques (translation with notes from the Greek, ibid. 1790); Accord de la révélation et de la raison contre le divorce (ibid. 1791).
Bibliography2 worksHurter, V, col. 506; C. Toussaint, s. v. in DThC, II, coll. 2215-16.
BIBL.: Hurter, V, col. 506; C. Toussaint, s. v. in DThC, II, coll. 2215-16.
Zollini, Vito. “Chapt de Rastignac, armand.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 1389. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/chapt-de-rastignac-armand.
MLA
Zollini, Vito. “Chapt de Rastignac, armand.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1389. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/chapt-de-rastignac-armand.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec3_chapt_de_rastignac_armand,
author = {Zollini, Vito},
title = {Chapt de Rastignac, armand},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {1389},
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/chapt-de-rastignac-armand}
}
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