Roman Catholic Cardinal. The fourth of five children of a family of the rural bourgeoisie of Mauriac, his native city, Jules-Géraud Saliège received his early education from his uncle, Father Jules Monteil, before entering the minor seminary of Pleaux, Cantal, and successively the seminary of Issy-les-Moulineaux. Noted since his early teens for his oratorial talent, ordained priest on September 21, 1895 in Saint-Flour, he was soon named faculty member of the minor seminary of Pleaux. Spiritual director at the Carmelite convent of Saint-Flour, he was appointed to the teaching staff of seminary of Saint-Flour in 1903, of which he ultimate became rector in 1917. Mobilized as a military nurse and attached to the 163rd Infantry Division during the Great War, he was given the function of voluntary chaplain in the sector of Esparges and Mount Cornillet at his own request, with his conduct during the bellic period earning him a citation of Order du Jour de l'Armée on August 23, 1917. Demobilized from the army at the end of the same year at the request of Bishop Paul Lecœur of Saint-Flour, having been affected by pepper gas, Pope Pius XI elected him bishop of the diocese of Gap on October 29, 1925, receiving his episcopal consecration on January 6 of the following year inside the cathedral of Saint-Flour from the named Msgr. Lecœur. Promoted to the metropolitan see of Toulouse on December 17, 1928, during the Second World War he publicly and strongly protested the deportation of the Jews, for which stand he would be posthumously recognized by the Yad Vashem as "Righteous among the Nations". Named Compagnon de la Libération and assistant at the Pontifical Throne in 1945, Pope Pius XII created him cardinal priest in the consistory of February 18, 1946 with the title of Santa Pudenziana. Decorated with the Croix de la Libération by Pierre Bertaux, commissary of the French Republic on his elevation to the cardinalite, in his testament, prepared on April 4, 1943, he stated among others that upon the stone covering his final resting place he desired only simple inscription "Dilexit Ecclesiam"; eventually a different, yet still simple, inscription was placed atop of his vault. Passing away at place Dupuy in his episcopal city on November 5, 1956 of a congestion, having been afflicted from a spinal paralysis for years and lost most of his oratorical faculties due to a stroke he suffered back in 1932, he was laid to rest at Saint-Étienne's metropolitan cathedral, following a triumphant funeral. In a small public garden, next to the metropolitan cathedral of Toulouse, a bronze bust of the cardinal was placed in November 1986 on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of his death, while a square next to the named cathedral was dedicated to his memory by the city of Toulouse on May 12, 2015.