Born as the seventh child of Count Henri de Mayol de Lupé and Elisabeth Caracciolo Girifalco, he was ordained a Catholic priest on 10.6.1900 and served as a cardinal in Rome until 1914. After the outbreak of the World War he served as a military chaplain)field curate in various French military formations. He fought in the Dardanelles and on the Western Front, was captured twice and seriously wounded in the summer of 1918. He was cited three times in army orders and was decorated several times for bravery. After the war he served in Bessarabia and then in Lavant in the Middle East. He received a knighthood in the Legion of Honor for his actions in Syria and Lebanon. In 1927 he left the army, lectured at Sobrona and acted as tutor to the children of the Italian royal family, which earned him the right to use the title "Monsignore" until he was only a prelate. After the outbreak of World War II, he reapplied for the army but was not accepted because of his old age (66). During the occupation of France he intervened on behalf of many eminent and common people. After the German attack on Soviet Russia, his fanatical anti-communism led him to openly collaborate with the Germans and to join the Légion des volontaires français (Franzosischer Infantry-Regiment 638). As a military chaplain, he served with the LVF during the campaign in the East, and in 1942 he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class. When the remnants of the Legionnaires were assigned to the Waffen SS Charlemagne Division, he joined the ranks of the SS with them. However, he did not go to the front in Pomerania with the division and remained in Munich, Germany, where he was caught up in the end of the war, Allied capture and subsequent extradition to France, where he was sentenced to fifteen years in prison, loss of civil rights and confiscation of property. He was released in 1951. He lived the rest of his life in the Church Convent at Versailles. He died in June 1955. At his funeral, his coffin was carried by six of the fourteen peasants for whose release he had intervened during the war with a personal letter to Hitler. He received a total of fifteen military decorations during his lifetime.
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