The Archdiocese of Cambrai ( la, Archdiocesis Cameracensis;

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: ''Archidiocèse de Cambrai'') is a

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ecclesiastical jurisdiction or

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of the

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in France, comprising the

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of Avesnes-sur-Helpe,

Cambrai Cambrai (, ; pcd, Kimbré; nl, Kamerijk), formerly Cambray and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department and in the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, regio ...

, Douai, and

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within the ''

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'' of

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, in the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The current archbishop is

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, appointed in August 2018. Since 2008 the archdiocese has been a

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of the

Archdiocese of Lille The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lille (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Insulensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Lille'') is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. Its cathedral episcopal see is a Marian Minor Basilic ...

History

Originally erected in the late 6th century as the Diocese of Cambrai, when the episcopal see after the death of the

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bishop Saint Vedast (Vaast) was relocated here from

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. Though subordinate to the

Archdiocese of Reims The Archdiocese of Reims (traditionally spelt "Rheims" in English) ( la, Archidiœcesis Remensis; French: ''Archidiocèse de Reims'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastic territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. Erected as a diocese a ...

, Cambrai's jurisdiction was immense and included even

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and

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. In the early Middle Ages the Diocese of Cambrai was included in that part of Lotharingia which at first had been allocated to the

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king

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by the Treaty of Meerssen of 870 but, after various vicissitudes, came under the rule of the

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in 925. After the revolt by Duke Gilbert of Lorraine collapsed at the

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of 939, Louis IV of France renounced the Lotharingian lands, and in 941 Henry's son and successor King Otto I of Germany ratified all the privileges that had been accorded to the Bishops of Cambrai by the Frankish rulers. In 1007, the Bishops gained an immediate secular territory when

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invested them with authority over the former County of Cambrésis; the Bishop of Cambrai thus became the overlord of the twelve "peers of Cambresis". The Prince-Bishopric of Cambrai became an

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, located between the

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and the border with

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and

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in the

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, while the citizens of Cambrai struggled to gain the autonomous status of an

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. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the bishopric was temporarily a

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of the Burgundian dukes, which in 1482, as part of the inheritance of

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, passed to her husband

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. Cambrai from 1512 was part of the Imperial Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle and – like the Prince-Bishopric of Liège – was not incorporated into the

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of the

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. Nevertheless, the creation in 1559 of the new metropolitan See of Mechelen and of eleven other dioceses in the

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was at the request of King

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, in order to facilitate the struggle against the

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. The change greatly restricted the limits of the Diocese of Cambrai, which, when thus dismembered, was made by way of compensation an archiepiscopal see with the dioceses of Saint Omer,

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and

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as suffragans. The councils of Leptines, at which

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played an important role, were held in what was then the part of the former Diocese of Cambrai in the Southern Netherlands. Under

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the Bishopric of Cambrai finally became

after the Siege of Cambrai of 1677, confirmed in the

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of 1678 and 1679. From 1790 Cambrai was part of the new

department. By the Napoleonic Concordat of 1801, Cambrai was again reduced to a simple bishopric, suffragan to Paris, and included remnants of the former dioceses of Tournai,

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, and Saint Omer. In 1817 both the pope and the

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were eager for the erection of a see at

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, but Bishop

Louis de Belmas Louis Belmas (11 August 1757, in Montréal, Aude – 21 July 1841) was a French Catholic churchman and bishop. Life Early life Louis was born to a publicly esteemed businessman in Languedoc and his wife, both of whom died within six weeks of ...

(1757–1841), a former

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, vigorously opposed it. Immediately upon his death, in 1841, Cambrai once more became an archbishopric, with the diocese of Arras as suffragan.

Bishops

For the first bishops of Arras and Cambrai, who resided at the former place, see

. On the death of

Saint Vedulphus Vedulphus was a Pre-congregational saint and Bishop of Arras, France from 545 AD. He succeeded Bishop Domenico in 545AD, and when he died in 580AD the diocese of Arras was suppressed to establish Diocese of Cambrai.Saint Gaugericus (580–619) *

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(about 625) * Saint Aubert (d. 667) *

Saint Vindicianus Saint Vindicianus (''Vindician'') (french: link=no, Vindicien) ( 632 – 712) was a bishop of Cambrai-Arras. His Calendar of saints, feast day is 11 March. He is called a spiritual follower of Saint Eligius (Saint Eloi). Life Traditionally, h ...

(667–693), who brought King

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of the

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to account for the murder of

Saint Léger of Autun Leodegar of Poitiers ( la, Leodegarius; french: Léger; 615 – October 2, 679 AD) was a martyred Burgundian Bishop of Autun. He was the son of Saint Sigrada and the brother of Saint Warinus. Leodegar was an opponent of Ebroin, the Frankish May ...

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(d. 728) * Alberic and

Hildoard Hildoard or Hildo, was bishop of Cambrai from 790 to 816. He was a liturgical reformer, closely tied to the court of Charlemagne. His sacramentary is the only surviving exact copy, made around 812, of the ''Sacramentarium Hadrianum'', sent out by P ...

, contemporaries of

Charlemagne Charlemagne ( , ) or Charles the Great ( la, Carolus Magnus; german: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first Holy ...

, who gave to the diocese a sacramentary and important canons *

Halitgar Halitgar (Halitgarius, Halitcharius, Halitgaire, Aligerio) was a ninth-century bishop of Cambrai (in office 817–831). He is known also as an apostle to the Danes, and the writer of a widely known penitential. Life In 822 he travelled to Denmark ...

(Halitgarius, Halitgaire) (817–831), an ecclesiastical writer and apostle of the

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* Saint

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(866–879) *

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(879–886) * Fulbert (934–956), defended Cambrai from the

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and became the first bishop with comital authority in the city * Wiboldus (965–966), author of the ''ludus secularis'' which "furnished amusement to clerkly persons" * Erluin (995–1012), first bishop who was also count of the Cambrésis, feuded with Count Baldwin IV of Flanders *

Gerard of Florennes Gerard of Florennes (ca 975, bishop 1012 – 14 March 1051), bishop of Cambrai as Gerard I, had formerly been chaplain to Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, and helpful to the latter in his political negotiations with Robert the Pious, King of France. In ...

(1013–1051), formerly chaplain to

Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor Henry II (german: Heinrich II; it, Enrico II; 6 May 973 – 13 July 1024), also known as Saint Henry the Exuberant, Obl. S. B., was Holy Roman Emperor ("Romanorum Imperator") from 1014. He died without an heir in 1024, and was the last ruler ...

, and helpful to the latter in his negotiations with

Robert the Pious Robert II (c. 972 – 20 July 1031), called the Pious (french: link=no, le Pieux) or the Wise (french: link=no, le Sage), was King of the Franks from 996 to 1031, the second from the Capetian dynasty. Crowned Junior King in 987, he assisted h ...

, King of France (Gerard also converted by persuasion the Gondulphian heretics, who denied the

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) *

Lietbertus Saint Lietbertus (Lietbert, Libert, Liberat) of Brakel (or of Cambrai, de Lessines) (ca. 1010–1076) was bishop of Cambrai from 31 March 1051 to 28 September 1076. Liebertus was born to the Brabantian nobility at Opbrakel (a village in the pr ...

(1057–1076), who defended Cambrai against Robert the Frisian * Gerard II (1076–1092), introduced the

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to Cambrai; last bishop to also be bishop of Arras * Manasses of Soissons (1095–1103) *

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(1105–1113), celebrated as a professor and director of the school of Tournai, also as a writer and founder of the monastery of St. Martin near

* Burchard of Cambrai (1115–1131), who sent Norbert of Xanten and the

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s to Antwerp to combat the heresy of

Tanchelm Tanchelm (approx. 1070 - Antwerp, 1115), also known as Tanchelm of Antwerp, Tanchelijn, Tanquelin or Tanchelin, was an itinerant preacher critical of the established Roman Catholic church, active in the Low Countries around the beginning of the 12 ...

's disciples concerning the Eucharist * Lietard (1131–1134) * Nicolas I de Chièvres (1137–1167) * Pierre I de Flandre ou d'Alsace (1167–1173), never consecrated * Robert d'Aire (1173–1174), never consecrated * Alard (1175–1178), never consecrated * Roger de Wavrin (1179–1191) * Jean II d'Antoing (1192–1196) * Nicolas II du Roeulx (1197) * Hugh (1197–1198), never consecrated * Pierre II de Corbeil (1199–1200) * John of Béthune (1200–1219) * Godefroid de Fontaines (1220–1237/1238) * Guiard of Laon (1238–1248) *Ingeramus de Crequy (1274–1286) * Guillaume de Hainault (1286–1296), *Gui de Collemedio (1296–1306) * Robert II of Geneva (1368–1371) * Gerard III (1371–1378), previously bishop of Arras and Thérouanne *

Jean t'Serclaes Jean t'Serclaes (died 1389) was a bishop of Cambrai during the Western Schism. He was the brother of Everard t'Serclaes, the liberator of Brussels. Life T'Serclaes was born in Brussels and graduated from the University of Orléans as doctor of bo ...

(1378–1389) (appointed by Clement VII of the Avignon Obedience) *

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(1390–1396) * Pierre d'Ailly (1396–1411) (appointed by Benedict XIII of the Avignon Obedience) *

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(1411–1439) * John of Burgundy illegitimate son of Duke John the Fearless of Burgundy (1439–1479) *

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(1480–1502) *

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(1503–1516), son of

Jean II de Croÿ Jean II de Croÿ (1390? – Valenciennes, 25 March 1473) was Count of Chimay and progenitor of the line of Croÿ-Solre. Jean belonged to the powerful House of Croÿ. Life Jean was the second surviving son of Jean I de Croÿ and Marie de Crao ...

* William de Croy, cardinal in 1517, apostolic administrator of Toledo in 1517 (1516–1519) *

Robert de Croÿ Robert de Croÿ (1500–1556) was a Prince-Bishop of Cambrai in the Holy Roman Empire. Life Robert was the third son of Henry de Croÿ and Charlotte de Châteaubriant. His uncle, William de Croÿ, Lord of Chièvres, was one of the most trusted co ...

(1519–1556) *

Maximilian de Berghes Maximilian de Berghes (–1570) was the first archbishop of Cambrai. Life Maximilian was born around 1512, the second son of privy councillor Dismas de Berghes, a recognised bastard of John III of Glymes, Lord of Bergen op Zoom.Alphonse Le Roy, " ...

(1556–1562)

Archbishops

(1562–1570) * Louis de Berlaymont (1570–1596) *

Jean Sarazin Jean Sarazin (also ''Sarrasin'' or ''Sarrazin''), Latinized Joannes Saracenus (1539–1598) was an abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Vaast, Arras, and the third archbishop of Cambrai. Life Sarazin was baptized in Arras on 20 July 1539. He was ...

(1596–1598) *

Guillaume de Berghes Guillaume de Berghes or of Glymes(1551–1609), baron of Grimbergen, was bishop of Antwerp from 1597 to 1601 and archbishop of Cambrai from 1601 until his death.Émile de Borchgrave, "Grimberghe, Guillaume de Glymes de Berghes, baron de", ''Biograp ...

(1601–1609) *

Jean Richardot Jean Grusset dict Richardot, knight (1540 – 3 September 1609) was a statesman and diplomat from the Franche-Comté, who held high political office during the Dutch Revolt and played an important role in restoring Habsburg rule in the Southe ...

(1609–1614), minister and diplomat of the Archdukes

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and Isabella Clara Eugenia, Isabella. * François Buisseret (1614–1615) * Franciscus van der Burch (1616–1644) * Joseph de Bergaigne (1644–1647) * Gaspard Nemius (1649–1667) * Ladislas Jonart (1667–1674) * Jacques-Théodore de Bryas (1675–1694) * François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon, theologian and writer, proponent of Quietism (Christian philosophy), Quietism (1695–1715). * Jean d' Estrées (1716–1718) * Cardinal Joseph de la Tremoille (1718–1720). * Cardinal Guillaume Dubois (1720–1723), minister to Louis XV of France, Louis XV. * Charles de Saint-Albin (1723–1764) (illegitimate son of Philippe d' Orleans, Regent of France) * Leopold-Charles de Choiseul-Stainville (1764–1774) (His brother, Étienne-François, was Foreign Minister) * Henri-Marie-Bernardin de Ceilhes de Rosset de Fleury (1774–1781) * Ferdinand Maximilien Mériadec de Rohan (1781–1801). *Louis Belmas, Louis de Belmas (30 April 1802 – 21 July 1841) * Pierre Giraud (24 January 1842 – 17 April 1850) * René-François Régnier (30 September 1850 – 3 January 1881) * Alfred Duquesnay (1881–1884). * François-Edouard Hasley (27 March 1885 – 7 August 1888) * Odon Thibaudier (14 February 1889 – 9 January 1892) * Etienne-Marie-Alphonse Sonnois (19 January 1893 – 7 February 1913) * François-Marie-Joseph Delamaire (7 February 1913 – 21 July 1913) * Jean-Arthur Chollet (21 November 1913 – 2 December 1952) * Emile Maurice Guerry (2 December 1952 – 15 February 1966 Retired) * Henri-Martin-Félix Jenny (15 February 1966 – 25 March 1980 Retired) * Jacques Louis Léon Delaporte (25 March 1980 – 21 November 1999) * François Garnier (7 December 2000 – 15 August 2018) *

(15 August 2018 –)

Notable people

The list of notable people associated with the Diocese of Cambrai is very extensive, and their biographies, although short, take up no less than four volumes of the work by Canon Destombes. Exclusive of those saints whose history would be of interest only in connection with the Belgian territory formerly belonging to the diocese, mention may be made of: * Evermode of Ratzeburg, Blessed Evermod, disciple of Saint Norbert and first Bishop of Ratzeburg in Germany (twelfth century); * Blessed Charles I, Count of Flanders, Charles le Bon, Count of Flanders, son of King Canute IV of Denmark and assassinated at Bruges in 1127; * Blessed Beatrice of Lens, a recluse (thirteenth century). The Jesuits Cortyl and du Béron, first apostles of the Pelew Islands, were martyred in 1701, and Chomé (1696–1767), who was prominent in the Missions of Paraguay and Argentina in the province of Misiones, also the Oratory of Jesus, Oratorian Gratry (1805–1872), philosopher and member of the French Academy, were natives of the Diocese of Cambrai. The English college of Douai, founded by William Allen (cardinal), William Allen in 1568, gave in subsequent centuries a certain number of apostles and martyrs to Catholic England. Since the promulgation of the law of 1875 on higher education, Lille has been the seat of important Catholic faculties. Notable French and Flemish composers who served as ''maître de chapelle'' at Cambrai include Guillaume Dufay, Robert de Févin, Johannes Lupus and Jean de Bonmarché. See also Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes.

Notable chronicle

A chronicle of the bishops of Cambrai was written in the 11th century. This ''Gesta episcoporum Cambracensium'' was for some time attributed to Balderic, archbishop of Noyon, but it now seems that the author was an anonymous canon of Cambrai. The work is of considerable importance for the history of the north of France during the 11th century, and was first published in 1615.

Places

Abbeys

Under the old regime the Archdiocese of Cambrai contained forty-one abbeys, eighteen of which belonged to the Rule of St. Benedict, Benedictines. Chief among them were: * the Abbey of St. Géry, founded near Cambrai about the year 600 in honour of Medardus, St. Médard by St. Géry (580–619), deacon of the church of Treves, and who built a chapel on the bank of the Senne, on the site of the future city of Brussels; * the Abbey of Hautmont, founded in the seventh century by St. Vincent Madelgarus, the husband of St. Wandru, who was foundress of the chapter at Mons; * the Abbey of Soignies, founded by the same St. Vincent, and having for abbots his son Landri and, in the eleventh century, St. Richard; * the Abbey of Maubeuge, founded in 661 by St. Aldegonde the sister of St. Wandru and a descendant of Clovis I, Clovis and the kings of Thuringia, among whose successors as abbesses were her niece, St. Aldetrude (d. 696) and another niece, St. Amalberte (d. 705), herself the mother of two saints, one of whom, St. Gudule, was a nun at Nivelles and became patroness of

, and the other, St. Raynalde, a martyr; * the Abbey of Lobbes which, in the seventh and eighth centuries, had as abbots St. Landelin, St. Ursmar, St. Ermin, and St. Theodulph, and in the tenth century, Heriger, the ecclesiastical writer; * the Abbey of Crespin, Nord, Crespin, founded in the seventh century by St. Landelin, who was succeeded by St. Adelin; * the Abbey of Maroilles (seventh century), which St. Humbert I, who died in 682, was abbot; the abbey was sacked and destroyed, 1791–1794, and used as a quarry for stones. It no longer exists. * the Abbey of Saint-Amand Abbey, Elno, founded in the seventh century by St. Amandus and endowed by Dagobert; * the Saint-Ghislain Abbey, Abbey of St. Ghislain, founded by St. Ghislain, and having as abbots Gérard of Brogne, St. Gerard (tenth century) and St. Poppo (eleventh century); * the Abbey of Marchiennes, founded by St. Rictrudes (end of the seventh century); * the Abbey of Liessies (eighth century) which, in the sixteenth century, had for abbot Ven. Louis de Blois, author of numerous spiritual writings; * the Abbey of St. Sauve de

(ninth century), founded in honour of the itinerant bishop St. Sauve (Salvius), martyred in County of Hainaut, Hainaut at the end of the eighth century; * the Abbey of Cysoing, founded about 854 by Eberhard of Friuli, St. Eberhard, Count of Flanders, List of Dukes and Margraves of Friuli, Duke of Frioul and son-in-law of Louis the Debonair.

Pilgrimages

The principal places of pilgrimage are: * Notre-Dame de la Treille at

, a church dedicated in 1066 by Baldwin V, Count of Flanders, visited by St. Thomas of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Bernard, and Pope Innocent III, and where, on 14 June 1254, fifty-three cripples were suddenly cured; * Notre-Dame de Grâce at Cambrai, containing a picture ascribed to St. Luke; * Notre-Dame des Dunes at Dunkerque, where the special object of interest is a statue which, in the beginning of the fifteenth century, was discovered near the castle of Dunkerque; * the feast associated with this, 8 September 1793, coincided with the raising of the siege of this city by the Duke of York; * Notre-Dame des Miracles at Bourbourg, made famous by a miracle wrought in 1383, an account of which was given by the chronicler Froissart, who was an eyewitness. A Benedictine abbey formerly extant here was converted by Marie Antoinette into a house of noble canonesses. Until a comparatively recent date, the great religious solemnities in the diocese often gave rise to ducasses, sumptuous processions in which giants, huge fishes, devils, and representations of heaven and hell figured prominently. Before the law of 1901 was enforced there were in the diocese Augustinians, English Benedictines, Jesuits, Marists, Dominican Order, Dominicans, Franciscans, Lazarists, Redemptorists, Camillians, Brothers of St. Vincent de Paul, and Trappists; the last-named still remain. Numerous local congregations of women are engaged in the schools and among the sick, as, for instance: the Augustinian Nuns (founded in the sixth century, mother-house at Cambrai); * the Bernardines of Our Lady of Flines (founded in the thirteenth century); * the Daughters of the Infant Jesus (founded in 1824, mother-house at Lille); * the Bernardines of Esquernes (founded in 1827); * the Sisters of Providence, or of St. Therese (mother-house at Avesnes); * the Sisters of Our Lady of Lille Cathedral, Treille (mother-house at Lille), and the Religious of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts (mother-house at Douai).

References

Bibliography

Reference works

* p. 526–528. (Use with caution; obsolete) * p. 160. (in Latin) * pp. 115–116. * p. 100. * pp. 145. * p. 139. * p. 143.

Studies

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Acknowledgment

External links

* Centre national des Archives de l'Église de France
''L'Épiscopat francais depuis 1919''
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