Guillaume d'Orlyé
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Guillaume d'Orlyé | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Portrait of Guillaume d'Orlyé in the Church of Saint-Blaise, Allèves | |
| Born | Guillaume d'Orlier c. 1404 Bern, Switzerland |
| Died | 19 February 1458 (aged 54) Allèves, Haute-Savoie, France |
Guillaume d'Orlyé, OP (c. 1404 – 19 February 1458) was a French Dominican hermit and mystic.[1]
Biography
[edit]Guillaume was from a noble family, the Lords of Cengle in Allèves, in the Bauges region. He had entered the service of the Duke of Savoy. But the sermons of Saint Vincent Ferrer, an itinerant Dominican preacher passing through Annecy, changed his life and prompted him to join the religious order.[2]
He then left the court of Savoy and retired to the Castle of Viuz-la-Chiésaz where his mother still lived. He spent a year with her, until her death; then, requested admission to the Dominican convent of Annecy. But, at 42 years old, preferring the hermitic life to that of the monasteries, he chose to live in the old family tower in Cengle that was abandoned and almost in ruins.[2]
He lived there for eight years and died there at the age of 50. He was buried in the Dominican church in Annecy.[2] It was said that, during the transfer of his body from Alleves to Annecy, "the torches, although they were always lit along the roads, did not diminish and all the village bells through which the procession passed began to ring by themselves."[2]
Veneration
[edit]Canon Coutin, who was parish priest from 1922 to 1928, wrote in 1929 that the parishioners "still maintained a great devotion to this blessed man";[2] that they would "collect the water that flowed in all seasons, in a crevice of rock near his hermitage, and kept it like the water of Lourdes."[2] According to Canon Coutin, the numerous recorded miracles that Guillaume performed contained in a 940-page book that was destroyed during the French Revolution.[2]
On 26 June 1873, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Carcassonne-Narbonne has officially initiated the preliminary steps to gather necessary documents to have Guillaume beatified.[3][4] Up to date, there has been no progress.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Frère Xavier, Le Bienheureux Guillaume d'Orlyé, honoré d'un culte immémorial dans le diocèse d'Annecy (Paris, Poussielgue: 1872), p. 5–8.
- ^ a b c d e f g Jean Prieur, Hyacinthe Vulliez, Saints et saintes de Savoie (La Fontaine de Siloé, 1999), p. 88. (ISBN 978-2-84206-465-5)
- ^ a b "Fifteenth Century". Hagiography Circle. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
- ^ Cleophas Connolly, OP (27 March 2016). "Dominican Causes for Canonization and Beatification" (PDF). Dominicana Journal.
