Louis Luçon
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Louis-Henri-Joseph Luçon
Archbishop of Reims
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Biography
Louis Henri Joseph Luçon was born in Maulévrier. He was educatated at the Seminary of Angers where he earned doctorates in theology and canon law.
He was ordained on 23 December 1865 in
diocese of Angers
from 1875 until 1887.
He was appointed as
metropolitan see of Reims
on 21 February 1906.
In 1914, during his episcopate, the
Cathedral of Reims was destroyed when struck by 288 shells in the first three months of World War I.[1][2]
He was created Cardinal-Priest of 1922 that elected Pope Pius XI. During World War I he symbolised the victims of the German attack when, in spite of the destruction of his cathedral, he remained in Reims until April 1918. He died in 1930.
References
- ^ Yann Harlaut, « L'incendie de la cathédrale de Reims, 19 septembre 1914. Fait imagé… Fait imaginé… », in Ouvrage collectif, Mythes et réalités de la cathédrale de Reims de 1825 à 1975, 2001, Somogy, p. 70-79.
- ^ "Reims, la " cathédrale-martyre "". La Croix. 17 April 2014.
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