LAMBERT de la MOTTE, PIERRE. - Born on 28 Jan. 1624 at La Boissière (Calvados, France), he was first a councillor at the "Cour des Aides" of Rouen (1646) and then embraced the ecclesiastical state. Ordained priest on 27 Dec. 1655 at Coutances, he was appointed director of the central Hospital of Rouen. In 1658, at the request of Abbot F. Pallu (v.), he went to Rome to obtain the appointment of the first apostolic vicars.

The Congregation of Propaganda accepted the suggestion and indeed appointed him on 29 July 1859 bishop of Berytus and on 9 Sept. of the same year apostolic vicar of Cochinchina and apostolic administrator of southern China. After crossing Egypt, Persia and India on foot, he arrived in Siam on 22 Aug. 1662 and fixed his residence at Juthia. In 1664 he composed the work: Monita ad missionarios de S. Congr. de Prop. Fide. From 1666 to 1670 he visited Tonkin and in 1671-72 Cochinchina. In 1675 he was received by the king of Siam. In 1676 he set out again for Cochinchina and obtained from King Hieng-vuong the promise of religious freedom, whereby Catholicism developed in a consoling manner. He died at Juthia on 15 June 1679.

Bibliography

BIBL.: A. Launay, Mémorial de la société des Missions étrangères, Paris 1916, part 2, pp. 253-54.

Antonio Anoge

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Lambert de La Motte, Pierre

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