Sorry for the delay...

I am very busy wrapping up my studies and I am indeed running out of pictures.

Expect his blog to be shut down soon. It will remain online for the time being, so people can still come here and drool over the photos.

Here are some more postcards from France:



Martin de Gibergues, bishop of Valence



Archbishop Louis Joseph Gaillard of Tours



A bishop of La Rochelle. I don't know his name and the photos is small, but this great pompous pose had to be posted.


Alfred-Henri-Marie Cardinal Baudrillart



Cardinal Baudrillart, again



Emmanuel Célestin Cardinal Suhard, archbishop of Reims from 1930 to 1940, archbishop of Paris form 1940 to 1949



Cardinal Suhard, again, during an ordination



Cardinal Gerlier with Marshall Petain



Funeral of Cardinal Lucon



Funeral of Cardinal Lucon

Vivid

I don't know who these people are and where the photo was taken (except for Italy), but I just like the way the bishop does not look at the camera and some people to the left are trying to get their mugs in.

Sorry for the watermark. I swiped this one from ebay.

Poatcard-Week: Miscellaneous

To finish off the postcard-week, here is a whole bunch of bishops and cardinals who didn't warrant an own post. Again: Just read what is written on the postcards to know who's who. If there is no information, I'll provide some (where I can).











Cardinal Donnet, archbishop of Bordeaux


I have no clue











Bishop Duparc of Quimper


Bishop Dizieu of Amiens











Now that's a strange baldaquin. Like they are keeping the Cardinal in a cage.








No idea


Again, no clue. He looks like a koala bear!





























No bishop, no cardinal, but this funeral coach was too good to pass up.

Postcard-Week: Cardinal Dubois

Louis-Ernest Dubois was born on September 1st 1856 in Saint-Calais. He was educated at the Seminary of Le Mans and ordained a priest on 20 September 1879. After his ordaination he worked in the diocese of Le Mans from 1879 until 1898. He was editor of Semaine du fidèle in 1888. He served as Vicar general of the diocese of Le Mans from 1898 until 1901.

Pope Leo XIII appointed him Bishop of Verdun on 18 April 1901. Verdun was one of only two French cities where the bishop was not obliged to leave his palace in 1905 during the separation of Church and state. He was promoted to the metropolitan see of Bourges in 1909 and then transferred to metropolitan see of Rouen on 13 March 1916.

He was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Aquiro in the consistory of December 4, 1916. He become Archbishop of Paris on 13 December 1920. He took part in the conclave of 1922 that electe Pope Pius XI. He remained as Archbishop of Paris until his death on September 23rd 1929. He is buried in Notre-Dame de Paris.

Postcard-Week: Feast of Joan of Arc in Orleans

The "Fêtes de Jeanne d'Arc" are celebrated every year on May 7th/8th since 1457. This is the big one in Orleans, often called the "fête nationale d’Orléans", and millions of postcards are in circulation showing different aspects of the celebrations. Of course, I'll kind of concentrate on the photos containing proper "far sight" stuff...

You'll meet all kinds of prelates. Amongst others Cardinals Granito de Belmonte and CErretti, acting as papal nuncios. Then you'll meet the cardinals from the last two posts again, Touchet and Amette. And then there's countless other major or minor mitred men.

Unfortunately the postcards rarely ever give you the date (except for May 7th/8th - D'oh!). A year would have been nice, fellas!





Those first four photos apparently are from the 500-year-jubilee in 1912. The 500 years refer to the birth of Joan of Arc and are not to be confused with the next 500-year-jubilee...


...in 1929! This refers to the triumph of the French under Joan of Arc during the siege of Orleans in 1429.


Here's one more postcard with a year: 1921.



Cardinal Touchet (in the second photo with future Cardinal Baudrillart).



Cardinal Granito de Belmonte



Cardinal Lucon



Nuncio Cerretti