Abstract
Hyacinthe Loyson: The Story of an Inevitable Fall (1863-1869) Hyacinthe Loyson (1827-1912), who joined the Carmelite Order in 1859, after a time with the Priests of Saint-Sulpice and the Dominicans, is an essential figure of liberal Catholicism of the 19th century, contemporary to the end of Pius IX’s (1846-1878) pontificate. Preacher at Notre-Dame de Paris and in other prestigious chairs in France, Loyson decided to leave the Order, and then finally also the Church on the eve of Vatican Council I and the acceptance of the theses of Quanta cura (December 8, 1864) and the Syllabus. Through a careful study of the three letters addressed to Father Dominique de Saint-Joseph (Arbizu y Munárriz), between July and September 1869, this article traces Loyson’s itinerary and the reasons for his departure. Recourse to Loyson’s unpublished Journal and to little-known sources allows us to understand the journey of a man wounded, like many of his liberal contemporaries, by the slow evolution of the Church amidst a world in upheaval.
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