LOYSON, lw:i'zoN'. CHARLES, better known from his monastic name. as PERE HYACINTHE A famous French preacher. Ile was born at Orleans, March 10. 1827, and received his early education at Pau, where his father was rector of the academy.. Ile studied four years at the Theological seminary of saint sulpiee, Paris, and NV:1 s ordained priest in 1551. After ten years as professor in the seminaries of Avignon and Nantes, and as priest, lie catered the convent of the bare-footed Carmelites in Lyons and, finer two years of novitiate. joined that (inter in 1563. lie preached in several cities of France, attract ing attention by his and enthusiasm. In 1564 lie was called to the Madeleine in Paris and in 1865 to Notre Dame. For his boldne-s in denouncing what seemed to him abuses in the Church lie was silenced by the general of his Order in July, 1569. and, in consequence, with drew from the Order. Ills excommunication fol lowed. Late in the same year he paid a brief visit to New York. After the Vatican Council in 1570 he joined the Old Catholic movement and was present at the congress in Munich in Sep tember, 1871. (See Oui Ca'Finnic•s.) In 157' he was married in London to an American lady.
In 1873 he was called to Geneva by certain dis affected Roman Catholic.; and founded the first Old Catholic church there. Not being in full accord with all members of the party in that city, lie returned co Paris the following year. In 1579 he founded in Paris the 'Galilean Church' in communion with the Old Catholic and Angli can churches. Means for the erection of a chapel were furnished from America. For a number of years he served this congregation as rector, but ultimately placed it under the charge of the `Jansenist? Church of Holland. (See J.\ SENISM. Pere Hyacinthe gave much of his time to travel. In 1900-01 he visited the East, and with his wife was received by several patriarchs of Oriental churches. In 1901 he resumed preaching in Old Catholic and Protestant churches of Switzerland. Pere Hyacinthe's writings include: La socit'te ci•ile dans ses rappo•ts acre le eliristianisvne (1867) ; De la reform(' cotholique (1872-73) : Programme de la reforme ratholique ( 1579) ; Liturgic de l'Eglise catholique-gallicane (4th ed. 1553) : Mon testament (1593). He also edited the periodical Catholique fronvais.