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Writes OF seven Cardinals OF Gensva--Z
Ths List and Thsir History OF Their
Careers.
A distinguished Swiss prelate gives
a list of seven Bishops Of Geneva who
were Cardinals Of the Holy Roman
Church: Jean Muroi d'Estaing, Bishop
OF Geneva in 1877 and Cardinal in 1885;
this was that Jean de Minolys Tor Mo-
relly) Viscount d'Estain, whom the
Anti-Pope Clement VII. created in
Avignon, July IL, 1887, Anti-Cardinal
priest Of the, title of San Vitals. He
oonourred in the election Of the Anti
Pope Benedict XIII. (Peter di LANAI,
Ssptembe %, 1895, died in Ayignon in
1899, and in 1404 was transported to the
church of Franciscans in Clermont.
Second, Ademar Fabri De La Roche,
Dominican, Bishop in 1885 and Cardinal
In 1887; evidently one of the pseudo
Cardinals of the Antelope Clement
VII, though no mention Of him is to
be found In the creations Of that Pope.
Third, Jean Franezon Armet (or Brogny),
known as the Cardinal Of Brogny,"
from his native village, president of
the Council of Constance and Bishop of
Geneva in 140O; he was created by
Clement VII. Cardinal Of priestly title
of St. Anastasia and vice chancellor Of
the Holy Eoman Church, and by the
Antelope Benedict XIII. declared
Bishop Of the. suburban sees Of Ostia
and Velletri. In 1909 he abandoned the
schjsm, joined the Fathers Of the Coun-
oil Of Pisa, was admitted amid the
legitimate Cardinals and took part In
the election of Pope Alexander ", June
90, 1909, who eqndrmed him in his dig
mites. To him was chiefly due the
election and conservation of Pope Martin
", at which time he himself narrowly
escaped being chosen Sovereign Pontiff;
he died February 16, 1926, and his re-
mains, transferred from Rome, were
inferred in the Cathedral of Geneva.
The fourth Bi shop WAS the nephew and
successor of the last named, Francis de
Miles, OF the Order of ST. Benedict, pre-
conized to the see of Geneva in 1882,
created pseudo. Cardinal of the presby-
terial title of St. Marcelius by the Anti
Pope Felix ", in 1889, but, after the
rstirement OF that pseudo Pontiff, in
1449, he laid aside the Cardinalitial in
sigma and died in 1851. Fifth, Julian
Della Revere, Bishop of Losanne in 1472,
according to the "Gallia Christians"
created by his uncle, Sixtus w. Deem
ber Is, 1471, Cardinal priest of the title
of St. Peter in Vinculis, and, in 1476,
first Archbishop Of Avignon, raised to
Metropolitan rank by that Pontiff. He
was later promoted to the suburban see
of Ostia, with the post of dean of the
Sacred College,, and, in 1903 elected
Pope, as had been predicted to him In |
France by st. Francis of Paola, under
the name of Julius H. His name does |
not appear in any recognized list of the
Bishops of Losanne and Geneva. Sixth,
Peter dc la Baume- Montrevel, the last
Bishop of Geneva until the nomination
to that see of Mgr. Mermillod in 1888,
was preconized Bishop of Geneva by
Pope Adrian VI, in 1898, translated
of Besancon, 1929, and Gre
Ated by Paul Ill, December 10, 1889,
Cardinal priest of the title of SIS. John
and Paul; died in 1914 To the foregoing
some authors add Louis de la Palude,
of the Order Of St. Benedict, Bishop |
elect of Losanns in 1923, Governor or
Custodian Of the Conclave for the cleo
ton of Pope Martin ", l417, created
pseudo Cardinal by the Antelope Felix
Y. and legitimate Cardinal priest of the
title of St. Anastasia by Nicholas v,
December IA, 1449; died in Rome in
1856, and is buried in the Basilica of
St. Peter TO these Cardinals, reckoned
AS Swiss only by reason of domicile and
Office held In Geneva, may be added the
following three:, James Davy ,Du Perron,
of the Canton of Vaud, born in 1866,
who, abjnring Calvinism, embraced the
saoredotal career, converted King Henry
~. of France, was created by Clement
VIII, June 9, 1904, Cardinal priest Of
the title Of St. Agnes, in Foro Agonale;
died in 1913. He filed SUCCESSFULLY the
posts of French Ambassador to the Holy |
See, Archbishop of Sens and Primate of I
Gaul, and is known as the Augustine
Of France" because Of his resemblance
both In learning and sacred eloquence
to that great Doctor of the Chur oh,
Celestine Sfrondati, Abbot of St. Gall,
great nephew Of Gregory XIV, Bishop
of Novara in 1885, created by Innocent
XII, December 10, 1896, Cardinal priest
Of tho title of ST. Cecilia; died In 1895. |
The Solothurner An aeiger claims the
Swiss nationality for Cardinal Fesch,
Archbishop Of Lyons and uncle OF
l., on the ground that his
father, Francis Fesch, was native OF |
Basic, and serving in Corsica under the
flag Of France, married there the sister
OF Madam Mere-Lastizia Bonaparts,
mother Of the Emperor Napoleon !.
Cardinal Joseph Fesch, born in Ajaocio,
January 8, 1863, was created BY Plus
VII, June II, 1908, Cardinal priest Of
the title Of st. Maria della Vittoris,
which he retained In conamendam.
whom, as Cardinal priest, he passed 70
the title Of St. Laurence in Luoina; he
died in Rome, May IS, 1889. and his
romans were transported e the Church
Of the Passio on list Nuns Of Corneto, be-
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