Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castelmoron

Henri François -Xavier de Belsunce -Castel Moron SJ (* December 3, 1671 at the Château de La Force in Périgord, France, † June 4, 1755 in Marseille) was a French Roman Catholic bishop of Marseille and peer of France.

Life

Henri de Belsunce, son of the Marquis Armand Belsunce -Castel Moron joined, in 1691 the Society of Jesus in 1703 and attended the seminary in Agen. He was to 1706 Vicar of the Bishop of Agen, François Hébert.

1709 Henri de Belsunce was appointed bishop of Marseille and ordained on February 19, 1710 and enthroned on 30 March 1710 in Paris.

He achieved fame due to his efforts against the plague and its associated consecration of Marseilles on November 1, 1720 to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This consecration was inspired by the Salesian and mystic Anne -Madeleine Rémusat and was the first great public act of devotion to the Heart of Jesus according to the Sacred Heart of Jesus visions of Margaret Mary Alacoque. He sat down in his archbishopric against Jansenism one.

Henri de Belsunce declined the appointment as Bishop of Laon in 1723, as well as the appointment as archbishop of Bordeaux in 1729th

From 1729 he was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Arnulf of Metz and the Cella Les Chambon and 1731 the abbot of Mont Morel. He was an advisor of King Louis XIV

Works

• Abrégé de la vie de Suzanne -Henriette de Foix de Candale. Ed. Guillot, Agen, 1707
• Neuf Lettres à M. de Colbert, Évêque de Montpellier. Ed. Brébion, Marseille, 1730
• Le livre de Saint Augustin traduit en français. Ed. Brébion, Marseille 1740
• L' Antiquité De L' Église de Marseille, Et La Succession De Ses évêques (Volume 1), ed. Brébion, Marseille 1747