Maurice Le Sage d'Hauteroche d'Hulst.
Maurice Le Sage d'Hauteroche d'Hulst (born at Paris, 10 October 1841; died there, 6 November 1896) was a French
Roman Catholic
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priest, writer, and orator. He was the founder of the
Institut Catholique de Paris
The Institut catholique de Paris (, abbr. ICP), known in English as the Catholic University of Paris (and in Latin as ''Universitas catholica Parisiensis''), is a private university located in Paris, France.
History: 1875–present
The Institut ...
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Life
After a course in the
Collège Stanislas, d'Hulst entered the
seminary of Saint-Sulpice
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and later proceeded to Rome to finish his ecclesiastical studies. There he obtained the doctorate in divinity.
On his return, d'Hulst was for some time employed on the mission as curate in the populous parish of St. Ambrose. During the
war of 1870
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he became a volunteer chaplain in the army. In 1873
Cardinal Guibert called him to take part in the administration of the diocese, but he was engaged principally in founding and organizing the free Catholic University (then the Université Catholique de Paris), which the bishops opened at Paris after the passage of the law of 12 July 1875, allowing liberty of higher education. He became its rector in 1880 and for fifteen years devoted himself to developing it in every branch of learning.
In 1891, d'Hulst succeeded
Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré
Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré (born 10 December 1827, Blois – died 21 February 1907, Le Havre) was a French Dominican, a celebrated pulpit orator.
Life
Monsabré was ordained as a secular priest 15 June 1851, but soon felt he had a religious ...
in the pulpit of
Notre-Dame de Paris
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and preached the Lenten conferences there for six successive years, on the bases of Christian morality and the ''
Decalogue
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''. In 1892 he was elected deputy for
Finistère
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He was ordained priest in 1849 and for a short time taught history at the seminary of Strasbourg, where he had previously rece ...]
.
He died while still active, after a short illness.
Works
Books by d'Hulst include:
* (Paris, 1872)
* (Paris, 1892)
* (Paris, 1886)
* , a commentary on the Encyclical "Immortale" of Leo XIII (Paris, 1886)
* a volume of (2nd ed., 1903)
* the two-volume (Paris, 1891 and 1892)
* the six-volume (Paris, 1891–96).
He also wrote a number of articles, including:
*
* (a necrology of the
Comte de Paris
Count of Paris () was a title for the local magnate of the district around Paris in Carolingian times. After Hugh Capet was elected King of the Franks in 987, the title merged into the crown and fell into disuse. However, it was later revived by ...
)
*
Most of his occasional discourses were collected and published by Henri Louis Odelin in the four volumes entitled (Paris, 1900–07).
Alfred Baudrillart
Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart, Orat. (6 January 1859 – 19 May 1942) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church, who became a Cardinal in 1935. A historian and writer, he served as Rector of the Institut Catholique de Paris from 1907 until hi ...
, his successor at the head of the Catholic University, after the rectorship of , published a collection of of d'Hulst.
See also
References
;Attribution
* Under the title ''Recueil de souvenirs à la mémoire de Mgr Le Sage d'Hauteroche d'Hulst'' the principal discourses and articles on Mgr d'Hulst after his death have been issued in one volume (Paris, 1898).
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1841 births
1896 deaths
19th-century French Roman Catholic priests
Collège Stanislas de Paris alumni
Modernism in the Catholic Church