The Diocese of Saint-Dié ( la, Dioecesis Sancti Deodatiis, link=no; french: Diocèse de Saint-Dié, link=no is a

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ecclesiastical territory or

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of the

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. The diocese has the same boundaries as the ''

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'' of the

Vosges The Vosges ( , ; german: Vogesen ; Franconian and gsw, Vogese) are a range of low mountains in Eastern France, near its border with Germany. Together with the Palatine Forest to the north on the German side of the border, they form a single ...

. The bishop's

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Saint-Dié Cathedral Saint-Dié Cathedral (french: Cathédrale Saint-Dié de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges) is a Roman Catholic church and '' monument historique'' of France, located in the town of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in Lorraine. The cathedral, formerly a collegiate churc ...

in the town now named

Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (; german: Sankt Didel), commonly referred to as just Saint-Dié, is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Geography Saint-Dié is located in the ...

, but since 1944 has lived in

Épinal Épinal (; german: Spinal) is a commune in northeastern France and the prefecture of the Vosges department. Geography The commune has a land area of . It is situated on the river Moselle, south of Nancy. Épinal station has rail connection ...

, capital of the ''département''. The Diocese of Saint–Dié is a

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in the

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of the metropolitan

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. The current bishop is Jean-Paul Marie Mathieu, who was appointed in December 2005.

History

The Diocese of Saint-Dié originated in the celebrated abbey of that name. Saint Deodatus (Dié) (b. towards the close of the sixth century; died 679) came, according his legendary written in 1050 by benedictin monks of

Moyenmoutier Moyenmoutier (; german: Mittelmünster) is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. Inhabitants are called ''Médianimonastériens''. Geography The little town of Moyenmoutier is positioned along the lower part o ...

, from

Nevers Nevers ( , ; la, Noviodunum, later ''Nevirnum'' and ''Nebirnum'') is the prefecture of the Nièvre Departments of France, department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in central France. It was the principal city of the ...

and the

Nivernais Nivernais (, ) was a province of France, around the city of Nevers, which forms the modern department of Nièvre. It roughly coincides with the former Duchy of Nevers.Saint Columbanus Columbanus ( ga, Columbán; 543 – 21 November 615) was an Hiberno-Scottish mission, Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monastery, monasteries after 590 in the Franks, Frankish and Lombards, Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeu ...

. Some sceptical scientists add this legend would definitely distinguish Déodat as a holy itinerant who was not a benedictin monk : he comes from nowhere. Maybe he was just a Christian chief. Only one fact is sure : Déodat is the founder and first patron of a Merovingian district with political and religious power, a ban decided by the king of Austrasia

Childeric II Childeric II (c. 653 – 675) was the king of Austrasia from 662 and of Neustria and Burgundy from 673 until his death, making him sole King of the Franks for the final two years of his life. Childeric was the second eldest son of King Clovis ...

.This territory takes a lot of montanous land from his ''fiscus'', or royal reserve named ''foresta'', but integers private domains and little villages too And, after his dead, he was considered and consacred by local populations as a holy man. As, for orthodoxic thinkers of these times, only monk could be perfect, Déodat was becoming gradually a monk. Legendary versions show this holy man, in old French ''Bonhomme'' on little mountainous paths between

Rambervillers Rambervillers () is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. Inhabitants are called ''Rambuvetais''. Geography The town is built on the banks of the Mortagne, some to the west of Saint-Dié and to the north-e ...

and

Colmar Colmar (, ; Alsatian: ' ; German during 1871–1918 and 1940–1945: ') is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse), it is ...

. They tell us he made the acquaintance of Saints Arbogast and Florentius and walked with through the passes. From Alsace, sometimes from the Heilige Wald, German term for Hollywood, near

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, he withdrew to the Vosges, sojourning at

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where he began a lot of miracles, and Arentelle, where the inhabitants were hostile. For some time he was a solitary at Wilra or Wibra, maybee near the present Katzenthal in

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, but being persecuted by the inhabitants, he walked with a big stick who planted in soil created always a spring of water. Above the pass of Bonhomme, on the top of Rossberg, he launched an ironed arm until a locus called Petit-Saint-Dié under the Kemberg, a mountain, precisely under rocks Saint-Martin. Springs of flowed on this left side of the Meurthe, and he founded a refuge under rocks and near above springs. Once he received this lands in 669 he decided to work. His first monastery hardly built with new brothership, he was tied and dreamed to build a monastery in a little hill "Juncturae" in the right side of the river, the future Galilée. Longtime a prairie, then a little town, and now the center of

stand between this two places. Before this time,

Leudin Bodo Leudinus Bodo was a seventh-century bishop of Toul, successor to Eborinus, or Elbonirus. He was a Benedictine. He occurs in hagiographies. His feast day is Sept. 11. He is traditionally known as the founder of Bodonis Monasterium (the monastery ...

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, had founded to the north-west of Saint-Dié the monastery of Bonmoutier for his daughter and to the south of Bonmoutier that of Etival;

Saint Gondelbert Saint Gondelbert, (also Gondelbertus, Gundebert, Gumbert, Gombert, Gondeberg) was the founder of the Benedictine Senones Abbey in the Rabodeau ( :fr:Rabodeau) valley of the Vosges The Vosges ( , ; german: Vogesen ; Franconian and gsw, Voge ...

, perhaps after resigning the

Archbishopric of Sens The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sens and Auxerre (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Senonensis et Antissiodorensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Sens et Auxerre'') is a Latin Rite Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The Archdiocese comp ...

, had just founded

Senones Abbey Senones Abbey (''Abbaye de Senones'') was a Order of St. Benedict, Benedictine abbey located in the valley of the Rabodeau, in the present village of Senones, Vosges, Senones in Grand Est, France. History The abbey was founded in the middle of the ...

to the east. These four monasteries formed, by their geographical position the four extremities of a cross. Later, Saint Hidulphus,

Bishop of Trier The Diocese of Trier, in English historically also known as ''Treves'' (IPA "tɾivz") from French ''Trèves'', is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic church in Germany.Benignus (disciples of

Saint Hidulphus HidulfAlso: Hildulf, Hidulfus, Hidulphus, Hiduiphus, Hidulphe, Hydulphe. (died 707) was an abbot, founder of Moyenmoutier Abbey, and reputed bishop of Trier. He may have been born in Regensburg. A contemporary view is that he was not a diocesan ...

) are honoured as saints. In the 10th century the Abbey of Saint-Dié grew lax, and

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, expelled the

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, replacing them by the

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, in 996, agreed to the change and decided that the ''grand prévôt'', the principal dignitary of the abbey, should depend directly upon the Holy See. During the sixteenth century, profiting by the long vacancy of the see of Toul, the abbots of the several monasteries in the Vosges, without actually declaring themselves independent of the diocese of Toul, claimed to exercise a quasi-episcopal jurisdiction as to the origin of which, however, they were not agreed; in the eighteenth century they pretended to be nullius dioceseos. In 1718, Thiard de Bissy, Bishop of Toul, requested the election of a see at Saint-Dié.

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, was in favour of this step, but the King of France opposed it; the Holy See refrained for the time from action. This diocese was erected in 1777 after the French annexation of the duchy of Lorraine. The territory consists of numerous monastic Vosgian territories and other lands, belonging to the venerable

Diocese of Toul The Diocese of Toul was a Roman Catholic diocese seated at Toul in present-day France. It existed from 365 until 1802. From 1048 until 1552 (''de jure'' until 1648), it was also a state of the Holy Roman Empire. History The diocese was erect ...

: the new Diocese of Saint-Dié was until the end of the

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, was a suffragan of

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. The diocese was transformed by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790 and officially called of Vosges and especially of Epinal: it had indeed been established in the new departemantal area. Nevertheless, it was sometimes referred to at that period as the diocese of Saint-Dié, because the bishop Monsieur de Chaumont decided to stay and keep his episcopal seat. During the Revolutionary period it was suppressed, after an overnight flight by the bishop. The Holy See and the French Republic, represented by Napoléon Bonaparte, validated this ''state of fact'' as many others in the peaceful

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. It was decided to give this territory to the

diocese of Nancy The Diocese of Nancy and Toul (Latin: ''Dioecesis Nanceiensis et Tullensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Nancy et de Toul'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. After a considerable political strugg ...

. The King Louis XVIII and Roman Catholic ecclesiastics later restored it in name by the Concordat of 1817, but local Christians waited much later, after a Papal bull of 6 October 1822, and a royal ordinance of 13 January 1823, as a

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Besançon Besançon (, , , ; archaic german: Bisanz; la, Vesontio) is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzerl ...

. According to a principle sanctioned by this last Concordat, the diocesan boundaries were realigned, however, to follow those of the civil department of the Vosges. The Franco-German War closed by the

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removed eighteen communes in the valley of the River Bruche from the department of the Vosges and the diocese of Saint-Dié, adding them respectively to Nieder-Elsass (Bas-Rhin) and the

Diocese of Strasbourg The Archdiocese of Strasbourg ( la, Archidioecesis Argentoratensis o Argentinensis; french: Archidiocèse de Strasbourg; german: Erzbistum Straßburg; gsw-FR, Ärzbischofsìtz Strossburi(g)) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdi ...

. Louis Caverot, who died as Cardinal

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, was Bishop of Saint-Dié from 1849 to 1876.

Other religious houses in the diocese

Saints and religious of the diocese

Besides the saints mentioned above and some others, bishops of Nancy and Toul, the, following are honoured in a special manner in the Diocese of Saint-Dié: * Saint Sigebert, Merovingian King of

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(630–56) * Saint Germain, a hermit near Remiremont, a martyr, who died Abbot of Grandval, near

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(618–70) *

Saint Hunna Hunna (also called Huna and Huva,Dunbar, Agnes B.C. (1901). ''A Dictionary of Saintly Women''. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 397. birth unknown, d. 679), was born in Alsace in eastern France. Hunna is the patron of laundresses; her feast d ...

, a penitent at Saint-Dié (d. about 672) * Saint Dagobert, another King of Austrasia, slain by his servant Grimoald in 679 and honoured as a martyr *

Saint Modesta Saint Modesta (died c. 680) was the founder and Abbess of the monastery of Oeren in Trier, Germany. Biography Modesta was the niece of Itta of Metz and a cousin of St. Gertrude (626–659). Modesta became a Benedictine nun and was appointed the ...

, a nun at Remiremont, afterwards foundress and abbess of the monastery of Horren at

(seventh century) * Saint Simeon,

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(eighth century), whose relics are preserved at Senones * Saint Goéry,

(d. about 642), whose relics are preserved at Epinal and who is the patron of the butchers of the town * Saint William and Saint Achery, hermits near Ste. Marie aux Mines *

Richardis Saint Richardis ( la, Richgardis, Richardis), also known as Richgard, Richardis of Swabia and Richarde de Souabe in French ( 840 – 18 September, between 894 and 896 AD), was the Holy Roman Empress as the wife of Charles the Fat. She was re ...

(wife of

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), who died as Abbess of

Andlau Andlau ( or ; Alsatian: ''Àndlöi'') is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace, Grand Est region of northeastern France. The village owes its origin to Andlau Abbey which was founded in 880 by Richardis, the empress of Charles the Fa ...

in Alsace * Blessed

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, b. at Domrémy in the diocese * Saint

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(b. at Méricourt, 1565; d. 1640), curé of

Mattaincourt Mattaincourt () is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. Inhabitants are called ''Mattaincurtiens''. Geography Mattaincourt lies on the southern part of the Lorraine Plateau, in a wooded area of gentle hills kn ...

, who founded the Order of Notre-Dame * Venerable Mére

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(b. at Remiremont, 1576; d. 1622) Elizabeth de Ranfaing (born at Remiremont, 1592; died 1649) founded in the

the congregation of Our Lady of Refuge; Catherine de Bar (b. at Saint-Dié, 1614; d. 1698), known as Mére

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, at first an

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nun and then a Benedictine, founded at Paris, in 1654, the Order of the Benedictines of the Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Elizabeth Brem (1609–68, known as Mother Benedict of the Passion), a

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nun at

, established in that monastery the Institute of the Perpetual Adoration. The remains of Brother Joseph Formet (1724–84, known as the hermit of

Ventron Ventron (; german: Winterung) is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. See also *Communes of the Vosges department The following is a list of the 507 communes of the Vosges department of France. The commune ...

), are the object of a pilgrimage. Venerable Jean Martin Moye (1730–93), founder in Lorraine of the Congrégation de la Providence for the instruction of young girls and apostle of Su-Tchuen, was director for a brief period of the seminary of Saint-Dié, and established at

Essegney Essegney () is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. It is part of the arrondissement of Épinal. Demographics The population development of the village. See also *Communes of the Vosges department The f ...

, in the diocese, one of the first novitiates of the Soeurs de la Providence (hospitallers and teachers), whose mother-house at Portieux ruled over a large number of houses before the Law of 1901. Grandclaude, a village teacher who was sent to the Roman College in 1857 by Bishop Caverot, contributed, when a professor in the grand seminaire of Saint-Dié, to the revival of

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studies in France.

Bishops

*Jacques-Alexis Jacquemin † (13 Aug 1823 Appointed – Jan 1830 Retired) *Jacques-Marie-Antoine-Célestin du Pont † (9 May 1830 Appointed – 1 May 1835 Appointed,

Archbishop of Avignon The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Avignon ( Latin: ''Archidioecesis Avenionensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse d'Avignon'') is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The diocese exercises jurisdiction over the t ...

) *Jean-Joseph-Marie-Eugène de Jerphanion † (1 May 1835 Appointed – 15 Jul 1842 Appointed,

Archbishop of Albi The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Albi (–Castres–Lavaur) (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Albiensis (–Castrensis–Vauriensis)''; French: ''Archidiocèse d'Albi (–Castres–Lavaur)''), usually referred to simply as the Archdiocese of Albi, is a ...

) *Jean-Nicaise Gros † (15 Jul 1842 Appointed – 3 Mar 1844 Appointed,

Bishop of Versailles The Roman Catholic Diocese of Versailles ( Latin: ''Dioecesis Versaliensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Versailles'') is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, in France. The diocese, headed by the Bishop of Versailles, was est ...

) *Daniel-Victor Manglard † (21 Apr 1844 Appointed – 17 Feb 1849 Died) *Louis-Marie-Joseph-Eusèbe Caverot † (16 Mar 1849 Appointed – 20 Apr 1876 Appointed,

) *Albert-Marie-Camille de Briey † (20 Apr 1876 Appointed – 10 Nov 1888 Died) *Etienne-Marie-Alphonse Sonnois † (21 Dec 1889 Appointed – 26 Nov 1892 Appointed,

Archbishop of Cambrai The Archdiocese of Cambrai ( la, Archdiocesis Cameracensis; French: ''Archidiocèse de Cambrai'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France, comprising the arrondissements of Avesnes-sur-Helpe ...

) *Alphonse-Gabriel-Pierre Foucault † (3 Jan 1893 Appointed – 28 May 1930 Died) *

Louis-Augustin Marmottin Louis-Augustin Marmottin (March 11, 1875 at La Neuville-au-Pont ( Marne) – May 9, 1960 at Reims ( Marne)) was a French Catholic bishop. He was Bishop of Saint-Dié from 1930 to 1940 and then Archbishop of Reims from 1940 to 1960. Formation ...

† (2 Aug 1930 Appointed – 21 Aug 1940 Appointed,

Archbishop 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 ...

) *Emile-Arsène Blanchet † (6 Oct 1940 Appointed – 10 Oct 1946 Resigned) *Henri-René-Adrien Brault † (29 Sep 1947 Appointed – 11 Jul 1964 Died) *

Jean-Félix-Albert-Marie Vilnet Jean-Félix-Albert-Marie Vilnet (8 April 1922 – 23 January 2013) was a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Vilnet was born in Chaumont and was ordained a priest on 22 October 1944. Vilnet was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Saint-D ...

(24 Sep 1964 Appointed – 13 Aug 1983 Appointed, Bishop of Lille) *Paul-Marie Joseph André Guillaume (29 Oct 1984 Appointed – 14 Dec 2005 Retired) *Jean-Paul Mary Mathieu (14 Dec 2005 Appointed – 15 June 2016 Retired) * Didier Berthet (15 June 2016 Appointed)

Pilgrimages of the diocese

The principal pilgrimages of the diocese are: Notre-Dame de Saint-Dié, at Saint-Dié, at the place where Saint Dié erected his first sanctuary; Notre-Dame du Trésor, at Remiremont; Notre-Dame de Consolation, at Epinal; Notre-Dame de la Brosse, at Bains; Notre-Dame de Bermont, near Domrémy, the sanctuary at which

prayed; and the tomb of Saint Peter Fourier at Mattaincourt.

Religious institutions in the diocese up to 1905

There were in the diocese before the application of the Law of 1901 against the congregations: Augustianian Canons of Lateran; Clerks Regular of Our Saviour; Eudistes;

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, Fathers of the Holy Ghost and the Holy Heart of Mary and various teaching orders of brothers. Among the congregations of nuns founded in the diocese may be mentioned besides the Soeurs de la Providence, the Soeurs du Pauvre Enfant Jésus (also known as the Soeurs de la bienfaisance chrétienne), teachers and hospitallers, founded in 1854 at Chemoy l'Orgueilleux; the mother-house was transferred to Remiremont. At the close of the nineteenth century the religious congregations in the diocese directed 7 créchés, 55-day nurseries, 1 orphanage for boys and girls; 19 girls' orphanages, 13 workshops, 1 house of refuge; 4 houses for the assistance of the poor, 36 hospitals or hospices, 11 houses of nuns devoted to the care of the sick in their own homes and 1 insane asylum. The diocese of Saint-Dié had in 1905 (at the time of the rupture of the Concordat), 421,104 inhabitants in 32 parishes, 354 succursal parishes and 49 vicariates supported by the State.

History

Other religious houses in the diocese

Saints and religious of the diocese

Bishops

Pilgrimages of the diocese

Religious institutions in the diocese up to 1905

References

Sources

Acknowledgment