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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".
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.
Bossuet overwhelmed his backward pupil with such splendid lessons that the Dauphin developed a lasting horror of books, learning and history. By the age of eighteen, the Monseigneur had assimilated almost none of the knowledge amassed to so little purpose, and the apathy of his mind was second only to that of his senses. [1] He was very indolent.
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", 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]
"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.
He was an amateur archaeologist and organized expeditions from Rome to Mount Athos, to Syria, and Asia Minor, [3] from which he gained an interest in the early history of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1877, he obtained the chair of ecclesiastical history of the Catholic Institute, but left the theological faculty in 1883.
The Right Rev. Monsignor Edward Joseph Flanagan (13 July 1886 – 15 May 1948) was an Irish-born priest of the Catholic Church in the United States who served for decades in Nebraska.