Hyacinthe Loyson

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Hyacinthe Loyson
Roman Catholic Church

Charles Jean Marie Loyson (10 March 1827 – 9 February 1912), better known by his religious name Père Hyacinthe, was a famous French preacher and theologian. He was a

Notre Dame de Paris and sought to reconcile Catholicism with modern ideas.[1]

Biography

Loyson was born in

Collège de Sorbonne in Paris,[1] and one sister became a nun.[3]

In 1845, entered the seminary of

religious name of Hyacinthe. He then spent two years in the Carmelite convent in Lyon, and attracted much attention by his preaching at the Lycée in Lyons.[4][5]

As a preacher in Lyon and

Notre Dame de Paris between 1865 and 1869, but his orthodoxy fell under suspicion.[6] In 1868, he was summoned to Rome and was ordered to stop preaching on any controversial subject, and to confine himself exclusively to those subjects upon which all Roman Catholics were united in belief.[1][3]

In June 1869, Loyson delivered an address before the

Ligue internationale de la paix, which was founded by Frédéric Passy, in which he spoke of the Jewish religion, the Catholic religion, and the Protestant religion, as being the three great religions of civilized peoples; this expression elicited severe censures from the Catholic press.[4] In 1869, he protested against the manner in which the First Vatican Council was convened.[1]

He was ordered to retract, but he refused and broke with his order in an open letter of 20 September 1869, addressed to the General of the Discalced Carmelites, but evidently intended for the governing powers of the Church. In it he protested against the "sacrilegious perversion of the Gospel", and went on to say: "It is my profound conviction that if France in particular and the Latin races in general, are given up to social, moral, and religious anarchy, the principal cause is not Catholicism itself, but the manner in which Catholicism has for a long time been understood and practised." His manifesto against the alleged abuses in the Church created intense excitement, not only in France, but throughout the civilized world, and the young monk was hailed as a powerful ally by all the open opponents of the Papacy.[4]

He was excommunicated and resumed his name as Charles Loyson.[1] Soon after, he left France for America, landing in New York City on 18 October 1869. He was warmly welcomed by the leading members of the various Protestant sects in the United States, and though he fraternized with them to a certain extent, he constantly declared that he had no intention of quitting the Catholic Faith.[4] In 1870 he associated himself with Ignaz von Döllinger's protest against the dogma of Papal infallibility.[6]

On 3 September 1872, he was married in London at the

Arthur Stanley, and Lady Augusta Stanley, his wife, were present.[4] He claimed that in 1872, before he was publicly married in England, he had his marriage privately blessed in Rome by Archbishop Luigi Puecher Passavalli.[7]

A law was enacted that restricted episcopal and parochial jurisdiction in the canton unless sanctioned by the government; and that, for the future, all parish priests should be elected by the Catholic inhabitants, and be removed, if shown sufficient cause, by the State.[a] The canton was divided into twenty-three parishes, three of which were in Geneva; and in the following March, Loyson was invited by the Old Catholics to lecture in Geneva. In a series of discourses he boldly advocated a complete system of Church reform, to be carried out in conjunction with the Old Catholic party.

He urged that every nation establish a national Christian Church and the different established Churches become an international confederation. His views and talents were regarded favorably. Loyson was elected, by liberal Catholics,

Old Catholics, Loyson continued to write and preach and ultimately settled in Paris in 1877 and established as a separate church the Église gallicane, which drew upon the long French tradition of Gallicanism
.

He died in February 1912, in Paris, in the apartment of his playwright son, Paul Hyacinthe Loyson, and was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery.

References

Notes

  1. ^ Mullinger noted that curates were required to take an oath to the Swiss constitution, and could be suspended for four years if found guilty of violating their oath.[5]: 181 

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Augé, Claude, ed. (1898). "Loyson, Charles". Nouveau Larousse illustré (in French). Vol. 5. Paris: Éditions Larousse. p. 777.
  2. OCLC 600318403
    .
  3. ^ a b c Biographical Sketches of Père Hyacinthe and His Wife. San Francisco: Payot, Upham. 1884.
    OCLC 609215603
    .
  4. ^
    OCLC 5094800
    .
  5. ^ a b c d e
    OCLC 7110762. Archived
    from the original on 6 June 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  6. ^ a b This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Loyson, Charles" . Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
  7. ^
    OCLC 08456197
    . Retrieved 7 April 2013.

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