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Charles de Forbin-Janson, Missionary Bishop

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Fanchón Royer
Fanchón Royer*
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Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico
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Charles Auguste marie Joseph Count de Forbin-Janson (1785–1844) had one of those rare natures whose essential spirit is that of the Christian apostle. That he was born to be a missionary is the only explanation of the single-minded, lifelong dedication of this greatly gifted nobleman whose apostolate included a dramatic and outstanding contribution to the mission record of the United States and Canada and who, although he did not die in America, was a martyr to his labor for its evangelization.

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Research Article
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The Americas , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , October 1953 , pp. 179 - 196
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1953

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References

1 Quoted in Lesourd, Paul, Monseigneur de Forbin-Janson (Paris, 1944), p. 15.Google Scholar

2 Ibid., p. 17.

3 Abbé Marc Dermott, of the Irish Seminary, and later, Abbé Hubert.

4 Including Abbé Mazenod, future founder of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Abbé de Bonald who would be elevated Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons; Abbé Tharin and Abbé de Simony, one day to be the Bishops of Strasbourg and Soissons, respectively; and Abbé de Solages, destined for martyrdom from starvation and prison-induced fever while serving as Apostolic Delegate to Madagascar. Cf. Lesourd, op. cit., p. 20.

5 Lesourd, op. cit., p. 26.

6 Lesourd, op. cit., p. 41.

7 Leyssen, Jacobus, Le Triomphe de la Charité (Pékin, China, 1943), p. 75.Google Scholar

8 Lesourd, op. cit., p. 47.

9 Popular title for the Missionaires de France.

10 Leyssen, op. cit., p. 78.

11 Ibid., p. 78.

12 Martin, Eugéne, Histoire des Dioceses de Tout, de Nancy et de Saint Dié (Crépin Leblond, 1903), p. 33.Google Scholar

13 Leyssen, op. cit., p. 77.

14 Forbin-Janson to the Belgian Princes, Leopold and Philip, quoted in Leyssen, op. cit., p. 31.

15 This advocated restricting Papal Authority in favor of that of general councils, bishops and temporal rulers. Condemned by Alexander VIII in 1693.

16 Lesourd, op. cit., p. 53.

17 The seminary and other religious foundations had been pillaged.

18 Gemissements de l’Eglise de France, quoted in Leyssen, op. cit., p. 82.

19 Quoted by Lesourd, op. cit., pp. Ï80–181.

20 Spring Hill is now a Jesuit college.

21 Quoted in Lesourd, op. cit., p. 183.

22 The Protestant minister, Pierre Dumoulin, from La Rochelle, published in New Orleans a pamphlet entitled: “The Sillinesses of Bishop Janson Recited by Himself.”

23 Quoted in Lesourd, op. cit., pp. 184–187.

24 Bishop Fenwick of Boston, Bishop Kenrick of Philadelphia, Bishops Portier of Mobile, Rosati of St. Louis, Blanc of New Orleans, Archbishop Fxcleston of Baltimore, Bishops La Hailandiere of Vincennes, England of Charleston, Purcell of Cincinnati, Loras of Dubuque, Miles of Nashville and Flaget of Bardstown; Provincials of the Vincentians, Sulpicians and Redemptorists.

25 From Mélanges Religieux (Montreal), Dec. 14, 1840.Google Scholar

26 From a letter quoted in Lesourd, op. cit., p. 199.

27 Ibid., p. 198.

28 Lesourd, op. cit., p. 202.

29 Lesourd, op. cit., p. 203.

30 Lesourd, op. cit., p. 205.