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{{short description|French Roman Catholic saint}}

{{Infobox saint
|image = André-Hubert Fournet.jpg
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|honorific_prefix = [[Canonization|Saint]]
|name = André-Hubert Fournet
|birth_date = {{birth date|1752|12|06|df=yes}}
|birth_place = [[Saint-Pierre-de-Maillé]], [[Vienne (department)|Vienne]], [[Kingdom of France]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|1834|05|13|1752|12|06|df=yes}}
|death_place = [[La Puye]], Vienne, [[July Monarchy|French Kingdom]]
|titles =
|venerated_in = [[Roman Catholic Church]]
|feast_day = 13 May
|attributes = [[Book of the Hours]], [[crucifix]]
|patronage =
|beatified_date = 16 May 1926
|beatified_place = [[Saint Peter's Basilica]]
|beatified_by = [[Pope Pius XI]]
|canonized_date = 4 June 1933
|canonized_place = Saint Peter's Basilica
|canonized_by = Pope Pius XI
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'''André-Hubert Fournet''' (6 December 1752 – 13 May 1834) was a [[French people|French]] [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[priest]] and together with [[Jeanne-Elisabeth Bichier des Ages]] the founder of the [[Daughters of the Holy Cross, Sisters of St. Andrew]].<ref name=SQPN>{{cite web|url=http://catholicsaints.info/saint-andre-hubert-fournet/|title=Saint André-Hubert Fournet|publisher=Saints SQPN|date=6 August 2012|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref> Fournet had a disdain for religion in his childhood but became a priest due to the shining example and influence of an uncle of his. He later fled [[France]] in 1792 following a brief arrest during the [[French Revolution]] after refusing to take the oath, and returned sometime later where he met Bichier.<ref name=HI>{{cite web|url=http://www.holyspiritinteractive.net/dailysaint/may/0513.asp|title=May 13: St. Andrew Fournet|date=|publisher=Holy Spirit Interactive|accessdate=11 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111060930/http://www.holyspiritinteractive.net/dailysaint/may/0513.asp|archive-date=11 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=SEB>{{cite web|url=http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/53025|title=San Andrea Hubert Fournet|date=|publisher=Santi e Beati|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>
[[Pope Pius XI]] beatified him in 1926 and canonized him a short while after in 1933.

==Life==
André-Hubert Fournet was born on 6 December 1752 in [[Vienne (department)|Vienne]] to Pierre Fournet and Florence Chasseloup. He had at least one sister and his cousin was Julien Augustin Chasseloup de Chatillon (1760-1800). His uncle Antoine Fournet [[baptized]] him in the local parish church on 7 December.<ref name=HI/>

Fournet found most things bored him and religion in his childhood was one such thing he deemed to be a bore. This disdain for religion continued to grow because his mother kept nagging him to become a [[priest]] and he often said of it: "I'm still not going to be a priest or monk".<ref name=HI/> Fournet went through legal and philosophical studies at [[Poitiers]] but ran off from school as a sign of rebellion towards his mother and even joined the armed forces; his mother found him and pulled him out of it. He did not want to get a job and his poor handwriting limited the scope of job hunting. His uncle Jean Fournet – a rural pastor – had such an influence on him that he decided to become a priest, and was [[ordained]] in 1776. He was made the parish priest of his own hometown (succeeding his uncle) in 1781, to the pleasure of his mother.<ref name=SQPN/><ref name=SEB/>

The [[French Revolution]] saw him refuse to take the [[Civil Constitution of the Clergy|oath]] and he continued his now illegal pastoral mission in secret. On 6 April 1792 – on [[Good Friday]] – he was arrested for his activities. He declined being taken to jail in a carriage and said since [[Jesus Christ]] carried His cross it behooved His followers to travel on foot. He would escape and at one point assumed the place of a dead person on a [[bier]]. Fournet then fled to [[Spain]] in 1792 and later returned in 1797.<ref name=SQPN/>

He made the acquaintance of [[Jeanne-Elisabeth Bichier des Ages]] in 1798 and collaborated with her in the establishment of her new religious order named the Sisters of the Cross. He drew up the monastic rule that the new congregation would follow.<ref name=SQPN/><ref name=SEB/> He is said to have – in what was seen as a miracle – multiplied food for the members of the new congregation and their charges a number of times. He retired from his parish duties in 1820 but continued to direct the new order until his death in mid-1834. From 1820 until his death he lived with his sister.<ref name=HI/>

==Sainthood==
The sainthood process opened on 19 July 1877 under [[Pope Pius IX]] and the priest was titled as a [[Servant of God]] as a subsequent result, while local investigations – an informative and apostolic process – were held in Poitiers. The confirmation of his life of [[heroic virtue]] allowed for [[Pope Benedict XV]] to title him as [[Venerable]] on 10 July 1921.

[[Pope Pius XI]] confirmed two miracles to him and beatified him on 16 May 1926 while the confirmation of an additional two allowed for the same pope to canonize Fournet as a saint on 4 June 1933.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1933/06/05/archives/pontiff-canonizes-religious-martyr-andrehubert-fournet-victim-in.html Pontiff canonizes religious martyr; Andre-Hubert Fournet, Victim in French Revolution, Attains Sainthood in St. Peter's. 50,000 attend ceremony De Valera, Dollfuss and Many Other Notables Present -- Insane Man Interrupts Ritual.] New York times, June 5, 1933</ref>

==References==
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==Sources==
* Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. ''The Penguin Dictionary of Saints''. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. {{ISBN|0-14-051312-4}}.

==External links==
*[http://newsaints.faithweb.com/year/1834.htm Hagiography Circle]
*[http://catholicsaints.info/saint-andre-hubert-fouret/ Saints SQPN]

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