LA ROCHEFOUCAULD-BAYERS, François-Joseph de, Blessed. - Bishop, b. at Angoulême on 28 Apr. 1736, d. at Paris on 2 Sept. 1792. A descendant of a cadet branch of the house of La Rochefoucauld, he entered the Seminary of St. Sulpice in 1757 and was ordained a priest in 1762. Vicar general of the archbishop of Rouen in 1764 and archdeacon of Vexin, he was consecrated bishop of Beauvais on 12 July 1771.
On 13 March 1789 he was elected by the bailiwick of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis as a deputy of the clergy to the Estates General; he was charged by his electors to oppose any attempt by the Third Estate to substitute individual voting for voting by order, and he declared this firmly on 20 June of that year. In the Constituent Assembly he opposed the laws infringing the rights of the Church and fought in his diocese by every means the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. He was denounced to the Legislative Assembly as a member of a counter-revolutionary committee and therefore sought refuge, together with his brother Pierre-Louis, bishop of Saintes, with a sister, abbess at Notre-Dame of Soissons. Discovered, he was transferred to Paris and confined at the Carmelites. In 1792 he was murdered, after being gravely wounded, by a crowd of fanatics, together with 119 other prisoners. Pius XIbeatified him on 17 Oct. 1926.
Bibliography4 worksA. Robert-E. Bourloton-G. Cougny, Dictionnaire des parlementaires français, III, Paris 1890, pp. 603-606; S. Congregazione dei Riti, Positio
BIBL.: A. Robert-E. Bourloton-G. Cougny, Dictionnaire des parlementaires français, III, Paris 1890, pp. 603-606; S. Congregazione dei Riti, Positio super introduzione Causae, 2 vols., Rome 1915, passim; id., Positio super martyrio et causa martyrii, 2 vols., ibid. 1921, passim; AAS, 18 (1926), pp. 415-25.
Furlani, Silvio. “La Rochefoucauld-Bayers, françois-joseph de, beato.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 921. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/la-rochefoucauld-bayers-francois-joseph-de-beato.
MLA
Furlani, Silvio. “La Rochefoucauld-Bayers, françois-joseph de, beato.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 921. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/la-rochefoucauld-bayers-francois-joseph-de-beato.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec7_la_rochefoucauld_bayers_franco,
author = {Furlani, Silvio},
title = {La Rochefoucauld-Bayers, françois-joseph de, beato},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VII},
pages = {921},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/la-rochefoucauld-bayers-francois-joseph-de-beato}
}
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