Hugh of St. Cher
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His Eminence, the Most Reverend Lord Hugh of Saint-Cher, O.P. |
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| Cardinal Priest of Santa Sabina (1244-1261), Cardinal Bishop of Ostia (1261-1262), Cardinal Priest of Santa Sabina (1262-1263) | |
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| Province | Rome |
| See | Bishop of Ostia |
| Installed | 1261 |
| Term ended | 1262 |
| Predecessor | Rinaldo di Jenne |
| Successor | Henry of Segusio |
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| Ordination | c. 1227 |
| Consecration | 1261 |
| Created Cardinal | 1244 |
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| Born | c. 1200 Saint-Cher, Dauphiné |
| Died | 19 March 1263 Orvieto, Papal States |
| Nationality | Dauphinois |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Hugh of Saint-Cher, O.P., (c. 1200 – 19 March 1263) was a French Dominican friar who became a cardinal and noted biblical commentator.
Hugh was born at Saint-Cher, a suburb of Vienne, Dauphiné, around the beginning of the 13th century and, while a student at the University of Paris, he studied philosophy, theology, and jurisprudence, which latter subject he later taught at that same university.
In 1225, he entered the Dominican priory there and took the religious habit of the recently founded Order. Soon after his admission, he was appointed as Prior Provincial of the Order for France. He was made the prior of the Paris monastery in 1230. During those years, he contributed largely to the Order's success, and won the confidence of Pope Gregory IX, who sent him as a papal legate to Constantinople in 1233.
Pope Innocent IV made Hugh a Cardinal Priest in 1244, with his titular church being Santa Sabina, the mother church of the Dominican Order. He then played an important part in the First Council of Lyons, which took place the following year. He contributed to the institution of the Feast of Corpus Christi on the General Roman Calendar. In 1247, upon instructions of Pope Innocent, Hugh revised the Carmelite Rule of St. Albert, which the Saint Albert Avogadro, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, had given the first Carmelite friars on Mount Carmel. The Holy See felt it necessary to mitigate some of the Rule's more demanding elements to make it more compatible with conditions in Europe. The same pope approved these changes, and this revision remains the Rule for the Carmelite Order. After the death in 1250 of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, Pope Innocent sent Hugh to Germany as his legate for the election of a successor.
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