TOUCHET, STANISLAS XAVIER. - Cardinal, b. at Soliers (diocese of Bayeux) on 13 Nov. 1848, d. at Orléans on 23 Sept. 1926.

Educated for the ecclesiastical life by his uncle Ducellier, archbishop of Besançon, of whom he was also vicar general, he was appointed by Leo XIII as bishop of Orléans on 18 May 1894, and immediately after taking possession of the governance of the diocese he worked for the canonization of Joan of Arc; in Oct. of the same year he was charged by the Pontiff with opening the first informative process: he was able to attend the beatification in 1910 and the canonization in 1920. After the separation of Church and State, in 1906, he was very active in organizing parish associations for purposes of worship. In the Consistory of 11 Dec. 1922 he was created cardinal by Pius XI. On Joan of Arc T. published La Sainte de la Patrie (2 vols., Paris 1920). His pastoral activity is attested by the twelve volumes of Oeuvres choisies, oratoires et pastorales, (Paris 1900-22).

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BIBL.: anon., necrologio, in Osservatore Romano of 25 Sept. 1922; A. Lecanuet, La vie de l'Eglise sous Léon XIII, Paris 1930, passim; id., Les signes avant-coureurs de la séparation, ibid. 1930, passim; J. Schmidlin, Papstgesch. der neuesten Zeit, II-IV, Munich 1934-39, passim. Fulvio Furlani

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