Fabio Brulart de Sillery
Fabio Brûlart de Sillery ( born October 25, 1655 in Le Grand- Pressigny, † November 20, 1714 in Paris) was a French Catholic bishop and poet who was a member of the Académie française in 1705.
Life
Fabio Brûlart de Sillery was the sixth son of Louis Roger Brûlart, Marquis de Sillery (* 1619, † March 19, 1691 in Liancourt ), and Marie -Catherine de La Rochefoucauld († March 7, 1698 ), daughter of Duke François V. de La Rochefoucauld. He was born on 22 or 25 October 1655 (the figures vary ) on the Château de Pressigny in Touraine born. His godfather was the Apostolic Nuncio Celio Piccolomini ( Fabio Chigi ) gave the name of the reigning Pope Alexander VII to the child.
For a religious career determines Brûlart received in 1670 the Abbey of Saint -Michel de Tonnerre in Upcoming, he five years later with his uncle François- Nicolas de Sillery Brûlart exchanged against the abbey Lespau in the diocese of Mans. He also still had the abbeys Pelice (La plisse ) in the same diocese, and Saint- Basle in the Diocese of Reims. 1681 he received his doctorate from the Paris Faculty of Doctor of Theology and received a Domherrenstelle at Notre Dame Cathedral.
Appointed on June 10, 1689 Bishop of Avranches, he exchanged his diocese after a few months with Pierre Daniel Huet, who had been appointed bishop of Soissons. The exchange took place in October 1689 was Brûlart because of the differences of the French government with the hl. Chair ( → Gallican ) but only präkonisiert in the consistory of January 9, 1692 and finally on March 23, 1692 consecrated in the chapel of the Jesuits in Paris by Archbishop Charles -Maurice Le Tellier of Reims. On September 14 of 1692, the new prelate took his diocese personally owned and preached on October 11, 1693 in front of the cathedral chapter in Reims. On November 1, 1693, he was the abbey Gard in Upcoming.
The Hunger Winter 1693/94 Bishop Brûlart had spread so many alms that nobody had to starve. In 1694 he sent the compiled by his predecessor Simon Le Gras protocol anointing the ceremonial King Louis XIV to the Metropolitan of Reims and the other bishops of the ecclesiastical province. That document, in which he stated conclusively that at preventing the Archbishop of Reims, the Bishop of Soissons had the right to anoint the French King, earned him a sharp protest the dignitaries and the chapter of Reims, which stood on the position that without their consent should make no stranger ecclesiastical functions in the Cathedral of Reims. The protocol and protestations appeared in print in 1697 and 1717 were as Le sacre et couronnement de Louis XIV, roi de France et de Navarre again launched (Reims: Jacques Chardon, 1717).
1695 Bishop Brûlart held on behalf of the National Assembly of the French Clergy ' a welcome speech to the front of the Glorious Revolution fled to France King James II of England. Several times he was able to receive King Louis XIV in his episcopal palace and accompanied him to the battlefield to Compiègne. He put in the time ibid. also laid the foundation for those of Duke Philip of Anjou, the future King of Spain, donated Dominican church and was for several foundations by his predecessor very reduced episcopal mensa Abbey Valsery. Even for its cathedral, he received significant subsidies. He let Enlarge the episcopal palace and Improvement, supported the Roman Catholic Seminary with completed benefices of the Chapter of Mont -Notre -Dame and donated from his personal assets several scholarships for destitute seminarians of his diocese. He also had to build a new minor seminary and established several charitable organizations.
In 1694 he published a ritual, a catechism in 1696, 1700 synodal statutes and a new breviary.
On February 12, 1705 he was appointed as successor by Étienne Pavillon member of the Académie française, and took there the seventh chair ( fauteuil 7). In addition, he was an honorary member of the Académie royale des Inscriptions et Médailles and the Academy of Soissons. In addition to his episcopal career, he also wrote a number of poems.
Bishop Brûlart died in 1714 in Paris and was interred in the cathedral of Soissons.