Pasteur de Sarrats

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Pasteur de Sarrats
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Church Saints Marcellinus and Peter (1350–1356)
Diocese Assisi (1337–1339)
Embrun (1339–1350)
Orders
Created cardinal17 December 1350
by Pope Innocent VI
Personal details
Born
Vivarais FR
Died11 October 1356
Avignon FR
BuriedS. François, Avignon
NationalityFrench
Occupationmonk, courtier, theologian
Professionbishop

Pasteur de Sarrats (or Sarrats d'Aubenas; Lat. Pastor de Serraescuderio, and Pastor de Vivariis) was a French Franciscan friar, bishop and Cardinal. He was born in the village of Aubenas in the Vivarais, [1] or he took his monastic vows in the monastery of Aubenas. [2] Pasteur may have had a brother. A bull of Benedict XII, dated 13 April 1337, grants the parish church of S. Martin de Valle Gorgia in the diocese of Viviers to Pierre de Serraescuderio, Canon of Viviers since 1333, who held a parish of S. Pierre de Melon in the diocese of Uzès. [3] Pasteur died in Avignon in 1356.

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Student

He could have begun his studies at a Franciscan house in one of the University towns of the province, Avignon, Montpellier or Narbonne. [4] With the permission of his Minister Provincial and the Provincial Chapter, he was one of those young scholars permitted to finish his study at the Franciscan convent in Paris, and to attend the University. He was already Minister Provincial of Provence (1329-1331) when the General Chapter of the Order of Friars Minor met in Paris in May and June 1329. William Courtenay speculates that, in the schism that developed in the Franciscan Order in 1329, under the leadership of Michael of Cesena and William of Ockham, Pasteur de Sarrats supported Pope John XXII. [5] On 15 May 1329, Pope John XXII issued a decree replacing twenty of the schismatic Franciscan leaders with reliable persons recommended to him by Cardinal Bertrand de la Tour. One of these was Pasteur de Sarrats, who was appointed Minister Provincial of the Franciscan province of Provence. [6]

Theologian and teacher

He was granted permission in 1333, while still a Bachelor of Theology, to begin teaching the Sentences as soon as he completed his courses. [7] Pasteur de Sarrats obtained the degree of Doctor of Theology from the University of Paris in the Spring of 1333. [8] On 19 June 1333 he is referred to as Magister Pastor, Doctor in theologia. [9] He enjoyed the title of professor in the convents of his Order where he taught theology.

On 1 August 1334 he was released from his vow of obedience to the Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, Guiral Ot (Gerald Odonis). [10] William Courtenay conjectures that this was because of a case that was assigned to Fr. Pasteur by the Pope in April 1334, [11] to resolve a dispute between the Minister General, Guiral Ot, and the Minister Provincial of Austria and his Provincial Chapter. Fr. Pasteur found for the Austrians, and Courtenay writes that, perhaps because the decision offended Ot, or perhaps because of some other disagreement between them, Fr. Pasteur sought emancipation from Ot's control. [12]

He was one of the theological experts with whom Pope Benedict XII consulted on the subject of beatific vision, as taught and subsequently recanted by Pope John XXII. [13] In 1334 he was elected Minister Provincial of the Franciscan province of Provence (1334–1337), [14] with the approval of Pope Benedict. [15]

On 22 July 1336, Fr. Pasteur was paid a fee for examining the scripta dominii nostri pape ('writings of our Lord Pope') during the period June 23 to July 23. Another payment was made on 25 April 1337, for work done from December through April. [16] On 17 August 1338, as Bishop of Assisi, he was part of a three-man committee that sat from 10 December 1337 to 11 March 1338 correcting the Pope's writings on Matthew. [17]

Bishop

On 1 October 1337 Pasteur de Sarrats was appointed Bishop of Assisi by Pope Benedict XII, a post he held for less than sixteen months. [18] As the new bishop of Assisi, he was instructed by Pope Benedict to issue a mandate for about twenty Clarisses to be transferred to Naples, at the request of Queen Sancha, whose brother was a Franciscan, to act as examples for the younger nuns in the discipline of the Rule. The nuns belonged to the community of Corpus Christi in Naples. [19] During this episcopacy, Bishop Pasteur's duties in Assisi were performed by a vicar, Fr. Alexander, O.Min., Bishop of Nocera. [20] The evidence indicates that Bishop Pasteur stayed in Avignon and never went to Assisi.

On 13 February 1347, King Philip IV of France issued an edict, seizing the property in France of all clerics who lived outside of France, as well as the property of the Knights Hospitallers and members of the Papal Court. [21] On March 29, Archbishop Pasteur de Sarrats was sent on a diplomatic mission, along with Bishop Guillaume Amici of Chartres, to the Philip VI of France, to get him to release Cardinal Petrus Bertrandi and others, who had been detained in a quarrel over money. [22] On 10 July, the Pope ordered the two bishops to remain in Paris and work with the two cardinals resident there until the matter was sorted out. The envoys, with the assistance of the Queen, were eventually successful, at least as far as cardinals were concerned. [23] The struggle over the immunity of the Church from taxation by the State, however, was far from over. The same issues which had stirred Philip the Fair and Boniface VIII were still active.

Pasteur de Sarrats was appointed Archbishop of Embrun on 27 January 1339, in succession to Bertrand de Déaulx, who was made a cardinal on the same day. He retained the office until he himself was promoted Cardinal in 1350. [24] As Archbishop of Embrun, he was the recipient of a treatise written by John of Mirecourt, an Apology, in which he defended himself against questions concerning sixty-three statements made by him in his commentary on the Sentences. [25]

Cardinal

In his fourth Consistory for the creation of cardinals, held in Avignon on 17 December 1350, Pope Innocent VI named twelve new cardinals. Among them was Pastor de Serraescuderio, who was assigned the titulus of Saints Marcellinus and Peter in Rome. [26]

He took part in the Conclave of 1352, which followed the death of Pope Clement VI on 6 December 1352. The Conclave's opening ceremonies took place on Sunday 16 December, after the official nine-day mourning period (Novendiales). There were extensive Electoral Capitulations, which were annulled by the new pope, Innocent VI on 6 July 1353 in the Bull Solicitudo pastoris. The Conclave lasted only two days, achieving a successful result on Tuesday 8 December, with the election of Cardinal Étienne Aubert of Limoges, the bishop of Ostia. He was crowned with the throne name Innocent VI on 30 December 1352. [27] There is a myth that another person was first considered for the position, Dom Jean Birel, the twenty-second Superior General of the Carthusians, but this unlikely story has been successfully refuted. [28]

Death and entombment

Cardinal Pasteur de Sarrats died in Avignon on 11 October 1356, [29] and was buried in the Church of the Franciscans. [30]

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References

  1. Du Chesne, Histoire, p. 523.
  2. Antoine Aubery (1642). Histoire Generalle Des Cardinaux (in French). Paris: Jost. p. 495. Courtenay, p. 330.
  3. Baluze (1693), I, p. 892. J. M. Vidal, Benoît XII. Lettres communes Vol. I (Paris 1903), p. 391, no. 4182.
  4. Courtenay, p. 331 and n. 1. Courtenay speculates a good deal on whom Pasteur must have known, at Avignon (which, he decides, was the place) and at Paris, but he can cite no evidence at all.
  5. Courtenay, p. 331. He cites no evidence, though it is an easy deduction.
  6. Baluze, p. 892, points out, on the authority of Nicholas the Minorite, that the appointment came from Cardinal Bertrand de la Tour, who was acting as Vicar General of the entire Ordo Minorum.
  7. Henry Denifle and Émile Chatelain, ed. (1891). Chartularium Universitatis parisiensis (in Latin). Vol. Tome II. Paris: ex typis fratrum Delalain. pp. 402–403.
  8. Denifle, p. 407.
  9. Denifle, p. 407.
  10. Chronica XXIV Generalium Ordinis Minorum (Quaracchi, near Florence: Typographia Collegii S. Bonaventurae 1897) [Analecta Franciscana, Tomus III], p. 546 n., quoting from the registers of John XXII. Gerardus Odonis was promoted titular Patriarch of Antioch in 1342 and Bishop of Catania (27 November 1342): Duba and Schabel, p. 4 [151]. Gerardus died of the plague in Catania in 1348.
  11. C. Eubel (ed.), Bullarium Franciscanum Vol. V, no. 1060, pp. 568-569.
  12. Courtenay, p. 339. Courtenay cites no evidence either for Ot's attitude or for Pastor's motives.
  13. Denifle, p. 453 (4 October 1335).
  14. Courtenay, p. 335.
  15. Denifle, p. 471, n. Baluze notes (p. 892) that the Franciscan Luke Wadding reported that Pasteur had tried to refuse the office, and that subsequent writers had followed Wadding. The story partakes of the 'Great Refusal' topos, however, in which a member of the regular clergy is elected to some high office, but refuses out of monkish modesty; this person then goes on to be pope, or cardinal, or some other high official. That was the case with Pasteur, who is immediately found in office.
  16. Ehrle, p. 155, no. 22 and 23. Courtenay, p. 340, n. 63.
  17. Ehrle, p. 583, n. 40.
  18. Eubel, p. 113.
  19. Baluze (1693), I, p. 891 and p. 892.
  20. Courtenay, p. 340, n. 62.
  21. Baronio (ed. A. Theiner), Vol. 25, pp. 99-100, under the year 1337, nos. 17-18.
  22. Baluze (1693), I, pp. 785 and 893, rejects the story, which rests on the authority of the Franciscan Wadding.
  23. Baluze (1693), I, p. 893. Courtenay, p. 341.
  24. Eubel, p. 234.
  25. Courtenay, p. 343, with n. 79. Courtenay dates the treatise in the spring or summer of 1347, but never explains the address to the Archbishop of Embrun, which could not have been until 1379. Courtenay believes that John wrote to Pasteur when he was Nuncio in Paris in 1347. Pasteur de Sarrats was not appointed Bishop of Assisi until October 1, 1337.
  26. Eubel, p. 19 and p. 44.
  27. J. P. Adams, Sede Vacante 1352. Retrieved: 2016-06-30.
  28. Norman P. Zacour, "A Note on the Papal Election of 1352: The Candidacy of Jean Birel," Traditio 13 ( 1957) 456-462.
  29. Eubel, p. 19
  30. Chronica XXIV Generalium Ordinis Minorum (1897), p. 546 n.

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