HUGH OF ST. CHER (c. 1200-1263), French cardinal and Biblical commentator, was born at St. Cher, near Vienne, and, while a student in Paris, became a Dominican in 1225. Later, as provincial of his order, he won the confidence of the popes Gregory IX., Innocent IV. and Alexander IV., who charged him with several important missions. Created cardinal-priest in 1244, he played an important part in the council of Lyons in 1245, contributed to the reform of the Carmelites (1247), and the condemnations of the Introductorius in evangelium aeternum of Gherardino del Borgo San Donnino (1255), and of William of St. Amour's De periculis novissimorum temporum. He died at Orvieto on March 19, 1263. He directed the first revision of the text of the Vulgate begun in 1236 by the Dominicans; this first "correctorium," vigorously criticized by Roger Bacon, was revised in 1248 and in 1256, and forms the base of the celebrated Correctorium Bibliae Sorbonicum. With others of his order he edited the first concordance of the Bible, Concordantiae Sacrorum Bibliorum or Concordantiae S. Jacobi. His Postillae in sacram scripturam juxta quadruplicem sensum, litteralem, allegoricum, anagogicum et moralein was published frequently in the I5th and 16th centuries, and his exegetical works appeared at Venice in 1754 in 8 vols.
See Quetif-Echard, Scriptores ordinis praedicatorum; Denifle, in Archiv f iir Litteratur and Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters, iv. L'Annee dominicaine, iii. (1886) ; Chartularium universitatis Paris iensis, i.