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FranoisBrenger Saunire was a Roman Catholic priest in the French village of RennesleChteau, in the Aude region, officially from 1885 until he was transferred to another village in 1909 by his bishop, a nomination he declined and subsequently resigned. From 1909 until his death in 1917 he was a nonstipendiary Free Priest , and who from 1910 celebrated Mass in an altar constructed in a special conservatory by his Villa Bethania. Saunires refusal to leave RennesleChteau to continue his priesthood in another parish incurred permanent suspension. The epitaph on Saunires original 1917 gravestone read priest of RennesleChteau 18851917.
Franois Brenger Saunire was born onApril 1852 in Montazels, in the Arrondissement of Limoux of the Aude region. He was the eldest of seven children, having three brothers and three sisters . He was the son of Marguerite Hugues and Joseph Saunire , also called cubi, who was the mayor of Montazels , managed the local flour mill, and was the steward of Marquis de Cazermajous castle. Alfred became a priest Joseph wanted to be a physician but died at 25. Saunire went to school at St. Louis in Limoux, entered the seminary in Carcassonne in 1874, and was ordained as a priest in June, 1879.
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