Louis Aleman
Catholic cardinal
Feast: 16 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Louis Aleman became Bishop of Maguelonne, Archbishop of Arles in 1423 and a cardinal in 1426. At the Council of Basle he led the party that set the council above the pope and elected the antipope Felix V, though he showed heroic courage nursing the plague-stricken there.
He later submitted to Pope Nicholas V and is believed to have done penance for his schism. His private life had always been penitential; he died in the odour of sanctity on 16 September 1450, and many miracles were reported at his tomb.
The miracles
In 1527 a Brief of Pope Clement VII permitted him to be venerated as Blessed.
Why that counted as sanctity
A cardinal who repented his part in a schism and died in holiness.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), via New Advent - Louis Allemand
- Wikidata Q2711764 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Louis Aleman (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.