He had been early made archbishop of Toledo, and afterward cardinal; but his profession was not that of these nominal dignities.

Every man with whom he had to do seemed kind and tender; there was the patient old priest who taught him and bore with him as with a child, the fatherly cardinal, the quiet, serene ecclesiastics of the house in which he lived, the controlled crowds, the deferential great men with whom he talked.

Denys de Marquemont, Archbishop of Lyons, and subsequently cardinal (1626).