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Monseigneur (plural: Messeigneurs or Monseigneurs) is an honorific in the French language, abbreviated Mgr., Msgr. [1] In English use it is a title before the name of a French prelate, a member of a royal family or other dignitary.
Collectively, the legitimate children of the kings and dauphins were known as enfants de France ("children of France"), while examples abound in reputable works of fils de France and fille de France being converted into other languages as "Prince/Princess of France" (however the same works, as cited, leave the Spanish equivalent, Infante ...
Monsignor (/ m ɒ n ˈ s iː n j ər /; Italian: monsignore [monsiɲˈɲoːre]) is a form of address or title for certain members of the clergy in the Catholic Church.Monsignor is the apocopic form of the Italian monsignore, meaning "my lord".
On the occasion of the publication of a work devoted to the Livre des faiz monseigneur saint Loys in 1990, [3] François Avril gave him a conventional name, the “Maître du Cardinal de Bourbon”, about Charles II de Bourbon, archbishop of Lyon and cardinal, who commissioned the work. The French historian located the work in Paris and added ...
Hugh O'Flaherty CBE (28 February 1898 – 30 October 1963) was an Irish Catholic priest, a senior official of the Roman Curia and a significant figure in the Catholic resistance to Nazism.
Monseigneur François Pallu founded the Seminary of Saint Joseph in Ayutthaya, Siam, in 1666. François Pallu, MEP (1626–1684) was a French bishop . He was a founding member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society and became a missionary in Asia.
Jean de Monchy, seigneur de Sénarpont (1500–1563) was a French noble, governor and military commander during the Italian Wars and the early French Wars of Religion. ...
Pierre Joseph Georges Pigneau (2 November 1741 [2] – 9 October 1799), commonly known as Pigneau de Béhaine (French: [piɲo də be.ɛn]), also Pierre Pigneaux, Bá Đa Lộc ("Pedro" [3] 百 多 祿), Bách Đa Lộc (伯 多 祿) and Bi Nhu ("Pigneau" [4] 悲 柔), was a French Roman Catholic bishop best known for his role in assisting Nguyễn Ánh (later Emperor Gia Long) to establish the ...