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legends they appealed to the Office which they chanted Benedictine monastery of the Chaise Dieu united in

for the feast of Charlemagne — an Office, dating from 1G40 to the Congregation of St-Maur, still stands, with

1345, but in which they had recently inserted these the fortifications which Abl^ot de Chanac caused to be

tales of the Church of Le Puy. In 1484 Sixtus IV built between 1378 and 1420, and the church, rebuilt

prohibited the use of this Office, whereupon there ap- in the fourteenth ccnturv by Clement VI, who had

peared at Gerona the "Tractatus de captione Ger- made his studirs here, and by Gregory XI, his nephew.

unde", which reaffirmed the Gerona legends about This church contains the tomb of Clement VI. The

the fraternity with Le Puy. Down to the last days of fine church of 8. Julien de Brioude, in florid Byzan-

the old regime the two chapters frequently exchanged tine style, dates from the eleventh or twelfth century.

courtesies; canons of Le Puy passing through Gerona Besides the great pilgrimage of Le Puy, we may men-

and canons of Gerona passing through Le Puy en- tion those of Notrc-Dnme de Pradellcs, at Pradelles,

joyed special privileges. In 18815 the removal by the a pilgrimage dating from 1512; of Notre-Dame

Bishop of Gerona of the statue of Charlemagne, which d'Autoyrac, at Sorlhac, which was very popular be-

stood in that cathedral, marked the definitive col- fore the Revolution; of Notre-Dame Trouv<5e, at

lapse of the whole fabric of legends out of which the Lavoute-Chilliac.

hermandwi between Le Puy and Gerona had grown. Before the passage of the Law of Associations

The statue of Our Ladv of Le Puy and the other (1901) there were at Le Puy, Jesuits, Franciscans, treasures escaped the pillage of the Middle Ages. Religious of St. Mary of the Assumption, and Little The roving banditti were victoriously dispersed, in Brothers of Mary. Two important congregations of 1180, by the Confraternity of the Chaperons (Hooded men originated and had their mother-house, in the Cloaks) founded at the suggestion of^ a canon of Le diocese. Of these the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, Puy. In 1562 and 1563 Le Puy was successfully founded in 1821 with the object of giving commercial defended against the Huguenots by priests and re- instruction, have their mothei>house at Paradis and ligious armed with cuirasses and arquebusses. But important boarding-schools at Lyons, as well as in the in 1793 the statue was torn from its shrine and burned United States (chiefly Bale Saint-Louis) and in Can- in the public square. P^rc de Ravignan, in 1846, ada (chiefly at Athabaskaville). The Labourer Broth- and the Abb6 Combalot, in 1850, were inspired with ers, or Farmer Brothers, of St. John Francis R^^s the idea of a great monument to the Blessed Virgin were founded in 1850, by P^re de Bussy, a Jesuit. OD the Rocher Comeille. Napoleon III placed at the and possess seven model farms for the education of disposal of Bishop Morlhon 213 pieces of artiller>' poor children. A certain number of congregations of tal^n by P^lissier at Sebastopol, and the colossal women originated in the diocese. The Dominicans statue of "Notre-Dame de France" cast from the of Mt^re Agues, who taught and served as sick nurses iron of these guns, amounting in weight to 150,000 and housekeepers, were founded in 1221; the teaching kilogrammes, or more than 330,000 lbs. avoirdupois, Sisters of Notre-Dame, in 1618; the religious of St. was dedicated 12 September, 1860. Charles, teachers and nurses, in 1624, by Just de Serres,

The saints specially venerated in the diocese are: Bishop of Le Puy; the hospital and teaching Sisters

St. Domninus, martyr, whose body is preserveil in the of St. Joseph, in 1650, by P6re M6daiUe, who were

cathedral; St. Julian of Brioude, mart\T in 304, and the iirst congregation placed under the patronage

his companion, St. Ferr^ol; St. Calminius (CarmerjO, of St. Joseph; the cont<?mplative religious of the

Duke ol Auvergne, who prompted the foundation of Visitation of St. Mary were founded in 1659; those

the Abbev of Le Monastier, and St. Eudes, first abbot of the Instruction of the Infant Jesus, for teaching,

(end of the sixth century); St. Theofredus (Chaffre), in 1667, by the celebrated Sulpician Tronson, parish

Abbot of Le Monastier and martyr under the Sara- priest of St. Georges, and his penitent. Mile Martel:

cens (c. 735); St. Mayeul, Abbot of Cluny, who, in the the Sisters of the Cross, for hospital service and

second half of the tenth century, cured a blind man teaching, in 1673.

at the gates of Le Puy, and whose name was given, in At the end of the nineteenth century the religious the fourteenth century, to the university in which the congregations possessed in the Diocese of IjC Puy: clergy made their studies; St. Odilon, Abbot of (luny 69 infant schools (('coles maternelles), 2 schools for (962-1049), who embraced the life of a regular canon deaf mutes, 2 orphanages for boys, 6 orphanages for inthemonastery of St. Julien de Brioude; St. Robert girls, 1 refuge for penitent women, 20 hospitals or d'Aurillac (d. 1067), who founded the monastery of hospices, 1 hmatic asylum, 3 old men's homes, 57 Chaise Dieu in the Brioude district; St. Peter Cha- houses of religious women consecrated to the care of ▼anon (d. 1080), a canon regular, founder and first the sick at home. In 1905 (end of the Concordat provost of the Abbey of P^brac. At the age of eigh- period) the diocese had 314,058 inliabitants, 33 par- teen M. Olier, afterwards the founder of Saint-Sul- ishes, 24)? auxiliary parishes {succursales)^ and 195

781-82; tnafrum., , Le Puy, 1860);

r." '^'" "^"T^^.;t "T 't> i~T-" ""tt T — IRUGHIE, Avosioiirttt' ac nguse au vaay (Jjb Puy, 1869);

tivee of this diocese: the Benedict me, Ilugues Lan- Duchesne, Fortes fpx9copaux, II. 55-58; 1H4-35; Rocher, Le»

thenas (1634-1701), who e<lited the works of St. Ber- rapjwU de IV-oluieduPuy avcelavilU de Girone cnEapaane et le

nard aM St. ^^iselm. ana \^as the lu^torun Ot the i^^^^ ,y^ ^;,y^„„ (Barcelona. 1872); Coulet, Etude »ur Voffice de

Abbey of VendOme; the Bene^TK" d^'sVj^e '/j'Wi.S

The cathedral of I^ Puy, which forms the highest auivi de la rhronique de S. ISerre du Puy (Le Puy, 1882); LAfr

point of the city, rising from the foot of the Rocher com he. mp^rtoire g/mral dea hommage^ de Vrvechi du Puy,

gmeUte. exhibits architecture of every perio.! from '!^hl!Ki]fJ,^-{dZ%f^^^e,lr^^^^^^

the fifth century to the fifteenth, i ormerly, the vis- N. Lom» des Fron^aiH (1897); Arnaud, Hintoire dca Protettanta

iter passed through a porch Standin*]? well out from du Vivaraia et du Velay {2 vols., Paris. 18SS); Patrard, M^

4liA K»i1/liniy onri offor /lo«/»<»n*1iniy hnnt^'ith f lio n-iv«x_ rnoire »ur Ic jubiU de A. D. du Puy (Lc Puy. IHio); Chevalier,

the buiiumg and, alter descending heneatn tiie pa\e- fopo-bihl.. s. v. Puy-en-Velay .- Peyron. Ili^toire du juhiU de

ment, emerged by a stairway m front of the high N^re Dame du Puy (he Puy, I9i0.)

altar; the principal stairway is now covered by a bold Georges Gotau. vaulting which serves as base for one half of the

church. The architectural effect is incredibly auda- Le Quien, Michel, French historian and theolo- dousand picturesque. Thefour galleries of t heel ois- gian, b. at Boulogne-sur-Mer, department of Pas-de- ter were constructed during a perio<l exteiuling from Calais, 8 Oct., IGGl; d. at Paris, 12 March, 1733. He the Carlovingian epoch to the twelfth cent ury. The studie<l at Ple.ssis College, Paris, and at twenty entered