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Diocese comprising the Department of Pas-de-Calais inFrance. On the occasion of the Concordat, the three Dioceses of Arras,Saint-Omer, and Boulogne were united to make the one Diocese of Arras. It was a suffragan ofParis from 1802 to 1841, in which year Cambrai again became an archdiocese and Arras returned to it as suffragan. At the beginning of the sixth century St. Remi (Remigius),Archbishop ofReims, placed in the See of Arras St. Vedastus (St. Vaast) (d. c. 540), who had been the teacher ofClovis after the victory of Tolbiac. His successors, Dominicus and Vedulphus, are bothvenerated assaints. After the death of the latter, the See of Arras was transferred toCambrai, and it was not until 1093 that Arras again became a diocese. Among thebishops of Arras areCardinal Antoine* Perrenot de Granvelle, Councillor of the emperor,Charles V,Bishop of Arras from 1545 to 1562, laterArchbishop of Malines and Viceroy ofNaples; François Richardot, a celebrated preacher,Bishop of Arras from 1562 to 1575; Monseigneur Parisis (d. 1866), who figured prominently in the political assemblies of 1848. The oldcathedral of Arras, constructed between 1030 and 1396, and dedicated to St. Vaast, was one of the most beautiful Gothic structures in northernFrance. It was destroyed during theRevolution. Two famousrelics were long greatlyvenerated at Arras: the "sacred manna", said to have fallen fromheaven in 371 during a severe famine, and the "holy candle", a wax taper said to have been given to Bishop Lambert in 1105 by theBlessed Virgin, to stop an epidemic. Not far from Arras, the city ofSaint-Omer, adiocese till theRevolution, perpetuates the memory of St. Audomare, or Omer,Bishop of Thérouanne, the apostle of the Morini in the sixth century. Itscathedral, a Gothic monument of the fourteenth century, was built over thesaint'stomb. The ruins of St. Vaast at Arras, and ofSt. Bertin atSaint-Omer, keep alive the memory of two celebratedabbeys of the same name; the Abbey ofSt. Bertin (founded in the seventh century) gave twenty-twosaints to theChurch. The Diocese of Arras at the end of 1905 contained 955,391 inhabitants, 52parishes, 690 churches of the second class, and 53 vicariates formerly with state subventions.
Gallia Christiana (ed. Nova, 1725), III, 318-371, 470-471; Instrumenta 77-100; Terninck, Essai historique et monographique sur l'ancienne cathedrale d'Arras (ibid., 1853); Chevalier, Topo-bibl. (Paris 1894-99), 223-226.
APA citation.Goyau, G.(1907).Arras. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01752c.htm
MLA citation.Goyau, Georges."Arras."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 1.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1907.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01752c.htm>.
Transcription.This article was transcribed for New Advent by William D. Neville.
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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