page_title: Bienvenu de Miollis
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Bienvenu de Miollis / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: The house of Mgr. de Miollis (after him portrayed Victor Hugo in the Les Misérables bishop Myriel) in Digne-les-Bains Français&#160;: Maison de Mgr Bienvenu de Miollis à Digne-les-Bains, évêque qui inspira le personnage de Monseigneur Myriel à Victor Hugo, dans Les Misérables. Español: Casa de Mons. Bienvenu de Miollis, en Digne-les-Bains, obispo que le inspiró al personaje de Mons. Myriel a Victor Hugo, en el novela " Los Miserables".
context_page_description: François-Melchior-Charles-Bienvenu de Miollis was the Bishop of Digne from 1805 to 1838. He was the inspiration for Victor Hugo's character Bishop Myriel in the novel Les Misérables.
context_section_description: Bishop de Miollis was the son of councillor in the Parliament of Provence. He had two brothers, one a lieutenant general (Sextius Alexandre François de Miollis), the other a prefect.
  On September 20, 1777, he was ordained to the priesthood at Carpentras and dedicated himself to the ministry of teaching catechism in rural areas. During the French Revolution in 1791, he refused to take the oath and emigrated to Rome, where he remained for 10 years.
  In 1801, he returned to Aix. He was appointed vicar of Brignoles in 1804. On 28 August 1805, he succeeded Irénée-Yves Desolle as the Bishop of Digne, which he remained until his resignation on 31 August 1838 at the age of 85 due to his health, becoming Bishop Emeritus of Digne. By then, he had earned the name "Bienvenu" (French for "welcome") due to his charitable nature and evangelical virtues he had shown. He then retired to Aix where he died in 1843, aged 90. He was succeeded by Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour. In the diocese of Digne, he is still remembered with much veneration.
  Bishop de Miollis attended the Council of Paris of 1811, during which he resisted Napoleon's claims with great firmness. In June of the same year, Eugene de Mazenod met him in Paris, then again in Aix in 1817, during a confirmation service presided by the Bishop of Digne. After he had been appointed to Digne in 1805, Bishop de Miollis at his own expense bought back the church and the presbytery of the sanctuary of Notre-Dame du Laus, which had been confiscated during the French Revolution. In 1818, it was Bishop de Miollis who offered the Missionaries of Provence the direction of the shrine of Notre-Dame du Laus and also asked them to preach parish missions in the two dioceses. Bishop de Miollis ordained Father Noël Moreau to the priesthood in September 1818 and Father Hippolyte Courtès in July 1820.
caption: Bienvenu de Miollis's residence at 47 Rue De L'Hubac Digne, France
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