Guillaume Pinchon

Guillaume Pichon , born with Saint-Alban, today in Coast-with Armor (Brittany, France), towards 1175, bishop of Saint-Brieuc in 1220. It is celebrated the July 29th.

Biography

It accepted the priesthood with Saint-Brieuc and became canon of Saint-Gratien of Turns. Raised in 1220 on the episcopal see of Saint-Brieuc. It sold its goods in 1225 during a famine, defended with the danger of its life the cause of the Church against the claims of Pierre Mauclerc which it excommunicated in 1226 because this one which wanted to dispossess the clergy.

Obliged to withdraw itself from persecution to seek an asylum with Poitiers, it fulfills the functions there of coadjutor of the bishop diocesan, who was crippled. Returned in its diocese in 1230, it applied to it to the restoration of the Cathédrale of Saint-Brieuc and to the relief of all miseries of its managed.

He died in odor of holiness the July 29th 1234, according to the P. of the Paz, the Breton Chronique , the characteristic of Saint-Brieuc, the Annales briochines , Pierre the Baud, Dom Lobineau, Dom Morice and Butler, whose opinion must prevail in this respect on that of Albert Legrand, of Bertrand d' Argentré and the Bollandistes, which fix its death in 1237.

Holiness

The Innocent pope IV, on the report/ratio of the miracles whose tomb of Pinchon would have been the theater, canonized it by a bubble of the April 15th 1247 under the term of Saint-Guillaume. He is the first Breton saint with being canonized, as of 1247.

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