Ks. Edgeworth de Firmont – ostatni spowiednik Ludwika XVI, przyjaciel o. Klemensa Hofbauera
Fr Edgeworth de Firmont – the last confessor of Louis XVI, and friend of Fr Klemens Hofbauer, CSsR

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the life of Fr Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont, the last confessor of Louis XVI, the king of France who was beheaded during the French Revolution on 21st January 1793. Before the revolution, Fr Edgeworth was the confessor of the king’s sister Madame Elisabeth. Before Louis XVI was executed, he asked to send him a priest who hadn't swore on the civil constitution of the Clergy. Fr de Firmont confessed the king and celebrated the last mass in his cell. He gave the communion to the king and attended him at the place of execution. In consequence, he had to hide himself. In the end he fled to England. Louis XVIII designated him as a royal almoner who wandered about Europe. Fr Edgeworth became the confessor of the king and the daughter of beheaded Louis XVI and her husband – dukes of Angoulême. He accompanied the family of Bourbons to Mitawa. In 1801, he went to Warsaw where he stayed till the year 1804. He entered in contact there with Redemptorists. The fact is testified in the presented letters addressed to Fr Clement Hofbauer. They are the proof of deep friendship between two ecclesiastics.

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