Eug%C3%A8ne Tisserant

EugneGabrielGervaisLaurent Tisserant was a French prelate and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Elevated to the cardinalate in 1936, Tisserant was a prominent and longtime member of the Roman Curia.

Eugne Tisserant was born in Nancy to Hippolyte and Octave Tisserant. From 1900 to 1904, he studied theology, Sacred Scripture, Hebrew, Syriac, Old Testament, and Oriental Patrology at the seminary in Nancy. He was reportedly fluent in thirteen languages Amharic, Arabic, Akkadian, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Persian, Russian, Syriac. He then studied in Jerusalem under MarieJoseph Lagrange, O.P., but returned to France in 1905 for military service.

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