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License given by the bishop of Vic to Antoni Magnial, priest and rector of the parish of Montagut, bishopric of Albi, to say mass and to confess to clergy emigrants from France

Date
1792
Archive
Episcopal Archive of Vic
Document type
Textual
Reference code
CAT-AEV-ME-1402/1
Link to the archive
Description

The document is part of a set of nearly eighty licenses granted to French chaplains fleeing the religious persecution that followed the outbreak of the French Revolution. The licenses were either to say mass or to say mass and confess to the exiled clergy, and some of these clergy ended up settling in parishes of the diocese.
It has been documented that 1,104 clergymen exiled from France passed through the bishopric of Vic, out of the nearly 40,000 who are believed to have fled that country following the Revolution.
Europe is undoubtedly a continent of migration. However, the origins and destinations of migrations vary and the roles are often exchanged depending on the circumstances and the causes that too often make these migrations not voluntary but forced.