Word: fournet
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...ponderous, pious machinery of the Roman Catholic Church last week produced a new saint. Andrè-Hubert Fournet (1752-1834) was a stout defender of the faith during the troublesome French Revolution. Ordained priest, he declined in 1791 to swear allegiance to the civil government. In retirement he tried to hold his parish together, sometimes saying masses in caves like the Early Christians. Andrè Fournet was twice exiled to Spain, returned in 1801. In 1806 he founded the Daughters of the Holy Cross, for work among poor girls, with Jeanne Marie Elizabeth Lucie Bichier des Ages, who had also...
...Andre Fournet was declared "Blessed" in 1926. This spring in secret consistory the Pope and his Cardinals voted canonization. Last week Pius XI left the Vatican for the third time in this Holy Year, proceeded solemnly to St. Peter's. On one platform were kinsmen of St. Andrè, a nun who said her life had been saved through his intercession, and representatives of the Daughters of the Holy Cross. On another were President Eamon de Valera of Irish Free State, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria, Princesses Germaine of Habsburg-Lorraine and Elisabeth of Bourbon-Parme. The Pope assumed...