HUGH OF ST CHER (c. 1200-1263)

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HUGH OF ST CHER (c. 1200-1263) , French cardinal and Biblical commentator, was born at St Cher, a suburb of Vienne, Dauphine, and while a student in Paris entered the Dominion convent of the Jacobins in 1225. He taught philosophy, theology and

canon

CANON

law. As provincial of his order, which office he held during most of the third decade of the century, he contributed largely to its prosperity, and 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

PART

in the council of Lyons in
1245, contributed to the institution of the Feast of Holy

Sacrament

SACRAMENT

, 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 the 19th of

March

1263. He directed the first revision of the text of the

Vulgate

VULGATE (from Lat. vulgus, the common people)

, begun in 1236 by the

Dominicans

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 the aid of many of his order he edited the first concordance of the Bible (Concordantiae Sacrorum Bibliorum or Concordantiae S. Jacobi),
but the assertion that we owe the present division of the chapters of the

Vulgate

VULGATE (from Lat. vulgus, the common people)

to him is false.
Besides a commentary on the book of Sentences, he wrote the Postillae in sacram scripturam juxta quadruplicem sensum, litteralem, allegoricum, anagogicum et moralem, published frequently in the 15th and 16th centuries. His Sermones de tempore et sanctis are apparently only extracts. His exegetical works were published at Venice in 1754 in 8 vols.
See, for sources, Quetif-Echard, Scriptores ordinis praedicatorum; Denifle, in Archie fur Litteratur and Kirchengeschichte des Mitlelalters, i. 49, ii. 171, iv. 263 and 471; L'Annee dominicaine, iii. (1886) 509 and 883; Chartularium universitatis Parisiensis, i. 158. (H. L.)

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