Honoré du Laurens

Honoré du Laurens (7 March 1554 – 24 January 1612)[1] [2][3][4] was archbishop of Embrun in south-eastern France.

His father was a doctor, first in Tarascon and then in Arles, who was greatly devoted to the education of his children.

Another of his brothers, Gaspard de Laurens [fr], was Archbishop of Arles, and a third, Jean (Jérôme in religion), Provincial Superior of the Capuchins.

His brother André, thanks to his high standing at court, was able to obtain for him the appointment to the Archbishopric of Embrun,[9] which had fallen vacant on the death of Guillaume d'Avançon.

Honoré refused the appointment and with the secret hope of finding a way of avoiding the episcopate, made his way to Rome, where he hid in a Capuchin friary, until the Pope threatened him with excommunication to compel him to leave this retreat and accept the archbishopric.