- Gallia Christiana
The Gallia Christiana , a type of work of which there have been several editions, is a documentary catalogue or list, with brief historical notices, of all the Catholic dioceses and abbeys of France from the earliest times, also of their occupants. First efforts In 1621 Jean Chenu , an avocat at the Parlement of Paris , published Archiepiscoporum et episcoporum Galli chronologica historia . Nearly a third of the bishops are missing, and the episcopal succession as given by Chenu was very incomplete. In 1626, Claude Robert, a priest of Langres , published with the approbation of Baronius , a Gallia Christiana . He entered a large number of churches outside of Gaul , and gave a short history of the metropolitan see s, cathedrals, and abbeys. The Samarthani Two brothers de Sainte Marthe, Sc vole 1571 1650 and Louis 1571 1656 , appointed royal historiographers of France in 1620, had assisted Chenu and Robert. At the assembly of the French Clergy in 1626, a number of prelates commissioned these brothers to compile a more definitive work. They died before the completion of their work, and it was issued in 1656 by the sons of Sc vole de Sainte Marthe , Pierre de Sainte Marthe 1618 90 , himself historiographer of France, Abel de Sainte Marthe 1620 71 , theologian, and later general of the Oratory worship Oratory , and Nicolas Charles de Sainte Marthe 1623 62 , prior of Claunay . On 13 September 1656, the Sainte Marthe brothers were presented to the assembly of the French Clergy, who accepted the dedication of the work on condition that a passage suspected of Jansenism be suppressed. The work formed four volumes in folio , the first for the archdiocese s, the second and third for the dioceses, and the fourth for the abbeys, all in alphabetical order. ref The title was Gallia Christiana, qua series omnia archiepiscoporum, episcoporum et abbatum Franci vicinarumque ditionum ab origine ecclesiarum ad nostra tempora per quattor tomos deducitur, et probator ex antiqu fidei man ... more details
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