Thomas Bracket

Thomas-Marie-Joseph Bracket , born on May 1st 1792 with Montigny-lès-Cherlieu and deceased the December 22nd 1866 with Rheims, was a cardinal and a Théologien French.

Biography

Wire of Thomas Bracket and Marguerite Bournon, he is the ninth child of a family of twelve. He is wire of plowman, started by working in the fields, and undertook its studies only at seventeen years with the small seminar of Amance.

Ordered priest on July 22nd 1817 per Monseigneur de Latil, it is named Vicaire with Lure during several months, then sign moral theology with the great seminar of Besancon. It preserves this pulpit until in 1830, acquiring the reputation of an expert professor and a Casuiste completed.

It republishes the Conférences of Angers (26 flights., 1823) the speeches accompanied by the notes, and then the theological Dictionnaire of Bergier (1826), of which it publishes another edition in 1843. From these years of professorship dates its clear exposure from the doctrines of the Church on the loan to interest (1825), the Civil code with accompanying notes in its relationship with moral theology (1827), and Justification of the theology of the P. Liguori (1829).

Called at the post of general vicar of Besancon by the Cardinal of Rohan, it achieves these responsibilities for 1830 with 1835. Exhausted by work, its doctors prescribe the absolute rest to him; it uses this forced idleness to accomplish its first voyage to Rome.

February 1st 1836, it is named bishop of Périgueux by the pope Gregoire XVI and the king Louis Philippe; the following year, it presents to Villemain its Observations on the freedom of teaching , a protest against the Monopole of the university. It makes build the small seminar of Bergerac.

July 13rd 1840, it is called with the archdiocese of Rheims by Gregoire XVI; its episcopal responsibilities do not prevent it from completing important theological work. In 1844 appears in French his moral Théologie with the use of the priests and the confessors , republished on several occasions. Its treated dogmatic theology (2 Flights. 1848) does not have less success. It makes build for the workmen, on its own sums of money, the Saint-Thomas church of Rheims, where it is buried. It makes gift with its native parish of a furnace bridge decorated with statues and admirable low-reliefs.

The October 13rd 1847, it devotes the church of Rimogne.

The dignity of cardinal to him is conferred on September 30th 1850 by the pope Pie IX for its great knowledge, the solidity of its doctrines and its many work.

Under the terms of the Constitution of 1852, he becomes senator of the Second Empire and, in 1858, commander of the Légion of honor.

Its last work is Exposition of the principles of canonical right (1859), Of the right of the Church touching the possession of the goods intended for the worship and the temporal sovereignty of the Pope (1862).

It is one of the first to restore the Roman liturgy and to assist the intellectual and moral movement which bring closer the Clergé and the Fidèle S.

Dignities do not change anything with simplicity of its manners. It is immortalisé by Balzac under the character of the abbot of Grancey in the novel Albert Savarus .

Its currency: the man collects what it sowed ; its armorial bearings contain the sheaf corn.

In remembering, a street bears its name to Rheims and Lure, as well as a school with Rheims.

Ecclesiastical course

1817 - 1818: Vicar with Lure (Haute-Saône);
1818 - 1830: professor of moral and dogmatic theology to Large the Seminar of Besancon;
1830 - 1835: general vicar of the diocese of Besancon;
1835 - 1840: bishop of Périgueux;
1840 - 1866: archbishop of Rheims.

External bond

Article over the bicentenary of its birth on '' the site of Jean-Rene ''

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