Diocese of Mills

The diocese of Mills (in Latin of curie: Diœcesis Molinensis ) is an ecclesiastical district of the Catholic church pertaining to the province of Clermont. Until the rehandling of the December 8th 2002, it was suffragan Archevêché Métropolitain of Sens. The current bishop is Pascal Roland, named by the Pape Jean-Paul II in 2003.

Territory

The diocese was set up the July 27th 1817. It corresponds to the administrative limits of the Département Allier.

The new announced reorganization in July 2007 by Mgr Roland, the diocese takes into account 18 Paroisse S for 320 communes.

These parishes are divided into five deanery S: three around each agglomeration of Mills, Montlucon and Vichy and two gather the parishes of rural environment, one in the West, the other in the East.

History

Before the creation of the diocese, Mills, which however had been the capital of the Duché of Bourbon, with the detriment of Souvigny, starting from the accession with the duchy, in 1488, of Pierre II (1438 - 1503), whose court was one of most brilliant of Europe, is not even a Paroisse. Its churches are branches of the parishes close to Midsummer's Day and Saint-Bonnet, which form since 1794 the commume of Yzeure.

The creation of the diocese of Mills is decided in 1788, but the first bishop named by Louis XVI, the May 21st 1789, the abbot Etienne Jean-Baptiste of Welshman of the Tower, general Vicaire of the bishop of Autun, cannot be instituted canonically, because of the events of the French revolution. To avoid lending oath to the civil Constitution of the clergy, it is withdrawn initially with the castle of the Tower, on the current commune of Saint-Pierre-Laval then emigrates in 1790. He dies bishop of Bourges, in 1820. The diocese of Mills is then attached to the diocese of Clermont by the Concordat of 1801.

The diocese is restored by the Concordat of 1817 and its territory formed starting from the dioceses of Autun, of Bourges, and Clermont, to correspond to the administrative limits of the Département Allier. The first bishop, Mr. Antoine of the Barn of Pons, is named in 1822, and the same year the “collegial one of the Bourbons” with Moulins is established like cathedral.

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Liturgy

Each territory from which the diocese of Mills was formed had a clean liturgy néogallicane with its characteristics: those of Clermont, Autun and Bourges.

1822-1853

The first bishop of Mills Mgr of Pons (1822-1849) chose for the whole of his diocese the Rituel and the Missel clermontois. Concerning the liturgical songs, it published a Graduel ( Graduale molinense , Moulins, 1826) and a Antiphonaire ( Antiphonarium molinense , Moulins, 1826).

1853-1970

The second bishop of Mills Mgr of Dreux-Brézé (1849-1893), near to the restorer of the Roman liturgy Dom Prosper Guéranger, restores the Roman Rite by mandement of November 21st, 1853. He was also a promoter of the Gregorian chant in his diocese.

1970 at our days

Paul VI revised the Roman Rite and promulgated the ordinary form of the Roman rite in 1970, which was quickly used almost everywhere.

The preceding form of the Roman rite called " extraordinary form of the rite romain" or more simply traditional mass remained celebrated in a small number of places. Today, the traditional mass is celebrated in union with the bishop with the church of the Sacred Heart with Mills, with the vault of Franciscaines in Vichy, and Vichy, Montlucon and Brout Vernet by the Fraternité Saint Pie X which is not in full communion with Rome but whose masses nevertheless are recognized valid.

Consecrated life

Male religious communities

Female religious communities

August 1st

Pilgrimages

The local pilgrimages are very numerous in the diocese of Mills. Some however have a notoriety which exceeds the limits of their Paroisse and of the surrounding parishes, like, for example:

  • the black Virgin of Mills: The statue of the Virgin would have been brought back of Ground-Holy by a lord of Bourbon and is offered by Louis IX. It is a Virgin in majesty of the 11th century, which was strengthened with 15th. She would have stopped the fire which started to destroy the city, in 1655, an inhabitant having thrown in the flames the coat of the statue. The habit existed to make burn in front of Notre-Dame de Moulins a wax wheel, interpreted by some like a solar symbol of regeneration. It is placed in the Chapelle of the chapter of the Notre-Dame basilica-cathedral of the Annunciation.

  • the miraculous Virgin, with the basilica Notre-Dame of Saint-Germain-of-Ditches: The pilgrimage with Notre-Dame of Saint-Germain dates from the “marvellous” discovery of the statue in water Allier, several centuries ago. A pilgrimage takes place each year, on July 2nd, dates from the employers' festival of the parish.

  • Holy Patrocle with Dovecote: Saint Patrocle is one of the saints most honoured with Bourbonnais. Berrichon, born in Bourges at the end of the 5th century, into 496, it converts very young person with Christianity and after being ordered Diacre by the bishop of Bourges, then named Archidiacre, it becomes the tutor of wire of Clodomir, King of the Francs. Wanting to devote itself only to God, it is withdrawn to live in Ermite in the Forêt of Tronçais, close to Néris. It founds the monastery of the Dove, become Colombier ( Monasterium columbarii ) but refuses to take the head of it, preferring to withdraw itself in a cell that it built on the plate where today That rises, where it will die after twenty years of solitary life. Its remainders always rest in the church of Colombier.

  • relics of saint Mayeul 4ère abbot of Cluny (+ 994) and holy Odilon, his successor (+ 1049) with Souvigny. The surveys and the archaeological excavations of November 2001 and January 2002 put at the day their burials forgotten since the depredations of the revolution.

  • relics of the True Cross and a spine of the Holy Crown with the Saint-Georges church of Bourbon-the Archambault: One and the other were brought in 1287 per Robert, wire of Louis IX, husband of Beatrice, Dame Bourbon and downward last of the line of the lords de Bourbon. The relic of the Vraie Cross is one of largest known fragments the.

  • the tomb of Menoux saint to Saint-Menoux: Menoux, or Ménulphe is Irish bishop born at the 7th century. From Ireland, it goes in Great Britain, then in Armorique until Quimper where it is ordered priest then bishop. To the return of a voyage to Rome, exhausted and sick, he arrives at the village become Saint-Menoux. He dies there a July 12th. Its tomb is a goal of pilgrimage, since its servant, Blaise, simple of spirit (“bredin” in Bourbonnais), undertook to bore a hole in the sarcophagus of its Master to pass the head inside and to be ansi closer to that which he venerated. It would have left there “débrediné”, cured thanks to Menoux. The tomb takes the name of “Débredinoire. ” At the 11th century, its relics are transported in a church, built in its honor, which will become the abbey church of bénédictines.

Inheritance

Religious architecture

One finds on the territory of the diocese a strong concentration of Romance churches , whose architectural characters are marked by the types of construction used on the dioceses of which they depended before creation on Mills. This triple influences - auvergnate, berrichonne and Burgundian are found in the church prieurale Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul of Souvigny, which marked of its print the close churches. Many small churches bourbonnaises of Romance origin, of very simple style, were altered during the centuries which followed.

At the 15th century, the Ducs of Bourbon undertake large building sites. The Gothic architecture also develops in the religious construction industries. The high parts of the church of Souvigny and its cloister are rebuilt and the first stone of the Collégiale of the ducal castle is posed in 1468 by Agnès of Burgundy. Work of this building, which will become in 1822 the Cathédrale of the bishop of Mills, continues under the duke Pierre {{Romanian|II|2}} of Bourbon and its wife, the duchess Anne of France, girl of Louis {{Romanian|XI|11}}. They finish towards 1540 by a simple wall of frontage decorated with a pink.

Under the episcopate of Mgr of Dreux-Brézé, one restores and one builds many churches in style Néogothique. The cathedral is increased of 1852 with 1888, old the Collégiale becoming the chorus building, by the achitecte Parisian Lassus which also builds the church of the Sacred Heart of Mills between 1844 and 1881. The last church built in this style is Notre-Dame Villeneuve-on-To combine, in 1904.

Safeguarding of the inheritance

Several sites gave place to associations of safeguarding of the monuments:

Statistics

In 2004, the diocese counted 293.012 baptized out of the 344.721 inhabitants of the department Allier.

Related articles

Sources

  • pontifical Directory edition 2005 and the preceding ones
  • Site of the diocese of Mills
  • Directory traditional masses in Combining it

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