Pierre Marie Joseph Veuillot (5 January 1913 – 14 February 1968) was a

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and

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Life

After having frequented the first year of the graduate course of Medicine, he joined the Carmes Seminary in

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, Paris, near his parent home of rue du Pré-aux-Clercs. He was admitted thanks to a

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granted by the

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for his bad health conditions. He graduated in

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and then was enrolled in the French Army where he became an artillery official. From 1932 to 1937, he studied Letters and Philosophy at the Sorbonne UniversityJacques Benoist
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/ref> where he knew Maxime Charles (whom Veuillot refused to defend in the 1958 dispute with cardinal

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for the Centre Richelieu, the

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of Parish students) and Robert Frossard, his future auxiliary bishop. After the degree in

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, he was ordained on 26 March 1939 in Paris by hand of the cardinal Verdier. For some months, Veuillot served as a curate in Asnières, near Paris. In 1939–1940, he was recalled in the French Army as

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and then he came back to Asnières. In October 1942, he was appointed professor of philosophy at the infant seminary of ConflansWhere he had among his students Guy Lafon and

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, registered under a nickname. Cf. Robert Serraou, ''Lustiger'', Librairie académique Perrin, 1996, p. 71. which was directed by the abbot Marc-Armand Lallier (1906–1988), the future

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. In 1942, he went to work in the

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. In 1947 Veuillot defended his doctoral dissertation in theology at the

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. In occasion of the golden wedding of his parents, he met the newly nominated nuncio Mgr Roncalli who gave him the opportunity to be received in Rome by the

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. In 1949 he was called to assist Mgr

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and Mgr Dominique Pichon to replace

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, the future pope Paul VI, who had become the Vatican Secretary of State for Extraordinary Affairs until 1952, before being promoted to the charge of pro-Secretary of State and then of

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, from 1954. The previous year, Veuillot received the right to bear the title of Prelate of His Holiness, a right that elevated him to the episcopal dignity and gave him the capability to start the preparatory works of the encyclical '' Fidei donum'', published in 1957 by Pius XII. During this period, Veuillot share the same room with Mgr

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. In 1959

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appointed him

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. He remained in Angers until 12 June 1961, when he was appointed

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of Paris with the

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of ''Constantia in Thracia''. On 1 December 1966 he became

, and on 26 June of the following year

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made him

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of ''

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'' as well. He died of

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on 14 February 1968 at the age of 55, having been a cardinal for only 6 months.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Veuillot, Pierre 1913 births 1968 deaths Participants in the Second Vatican Council Bishops of Angers Archbishops of Paris 20th-century French cardinals Cardinals created by Pope Paul VI Burials at Notre-Dame de Paris Deaths from leukemia in France Bishops appointed by Pope John XXIII