Gaston-Antoine Rasneur
ChurchCatholic
DioceseTournai
SeeNotre Dame de Tournai
Appointed1924
PredecessorAmédée Crooy
SuccessorLouis Delmotte
Orders
Ordination1899
Consecration25 March 1924
Personal details
Born(1874-02-26)26 February 1874
Died23 November 1939(1939-11-23) (aged 65)
Previous post(s)Professor of Sacred Scripture, Tournai seminary; vicar general of the diocese
Alma materCatholic University of Leuven
MottoDominus illuminatio mea (Psalm 27)
Coat of arms's coat of arms

Gaston-Antoine Rasneur (1874–1939) was bishop of Tournai from 1924 to 1939.

Life

Rasneur was born in on 26 February 1874. He was ordained to the priesthood for the diocese of Tournai in 1899 and graduated Doctor of Sacred Theology from the Catholic University of Leuven in 1902. From 1906 to 1911 he was professor of Sacred Scripture at the Major Seminary, Tournai.[1] He was appointed dean of Châtelet in 1911 and served as vicar general from 1921 to 1924.[2] On 6 April 1922 he was awarded a knighthood in the Order of Leopold.[3] He became bishop of Tournai in 1924, serving until his death on 23 November 1939. He played a leading role in Pope Pius XI's condemnation of Action Française in 1926.[4]

Writings

Further reading

  • Jean Dermine, Son Excellence Monseigneur Gaston-Antoine Rasneur, Évêque de Tournay, 1874–1939 (Tournai, Casterman, 1940)

References

  1. Serge Holvoet (ed.), Lucien Cerfaux (1883–1968) (Paris, 2019), unnumbered page (electronic edition).
  2. Paul Wynants, "La controverse Cardijn-Valschaerts (mars-avril 1931)", RBHC-BTNG, 15:1-2 (1984), p.121.
  3. Moniteur Belge, vol. 92, nos. 93-94 (9 April 1922), p. 2885.
  4. Philippe Prévost, Autopsie d'une crise politico-religieuse: la condamnation de l'Action française, 1926–1939 (Librairie canadienne, 2008), pp. 120-121.
  5. Online at persee.fr
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