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Léon-Paul Classe was born on 28 June 1874 in Metz, France.When he was aged six his family moved to Paris. [1] For his secondary education he attended Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet and then the junior seminary of Versailles.
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".
Monseigneur Luc Gillon was a Belgian priest and nuclear scientist. He became the first rector of the Lovanium University (now University of Kinshasa ) in Léopoldville from 1954 to 1967. Gillon played a significant role in the construction of the first nuclear reactor Trico I in Africa, located on the Lovanium campus in 1959.
Jean Carl Pierre Marie d'Orléans (born 19 May 1965) is the current head of the House of Orléans.Jean is the senior male descendant by primogeniture in the male-line of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French, and thus according to the Orléanists the legitimate claimant to the defunct throne of France as Jean IV. [2]
Gerbet was born at Poligny, Jura.He studied at the Académie and the Grand-Séminaire of Besançon, also at St-Sulpice and the Sorbonne.Ordained priest in 1822, he joined Félicité de La Mennais at "La Chesnaie" in 1825 to launch the Society of St Peter (Congrégation de Saint-Pierre), after a few years spent with Antoine de Salinis at the Lycée Henri IV.
"There is a story told," I said, "of Monseigneur Dupanloup, Bishop of Orleans, who was supposed to be one of the wittiest men of his time. He was at dinner once with a lady who made a peculiar little noise and then proceeded to shuffle with her feet on the parquet so as to cover the indiscretion with similar sounds.
"Monseigneur", said his companion "I think you have made a mistake. The man you have just given money to is a Jew." "Thank you", replied Cheverus, "It is true, I did not know it." Asking the man to come back, Cheverus handed him a five franc piece. He told his companion, "There are so few who would give him anything." [11]
This is a list of cardinals of the Catholic Church from England.It does not include cardinals of non-English national origin appointed to English ecclesiastical offices such as the cardinal protectors of England.