Edmond Louis Budry

BUDRY, Edmond Louis. b. Vevey, 30 Aug 1854; d. Vevey, 12 Nov 1932. Born in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, Budry was educated at Lausanne, studying at the theological faculty of the Église Évangélique Libre du Canton de Vaud, a breakaway church from the National Reformed Church of Vaud. He served as a pastor of that church at Cully and Ste Croix, between Lausanne and Vevey (1886-89) and of the Free Church at Vevey (1889-1924). He died at Vevey and is buried at Cully. He is famous for the hymn, ‘A toi la gloire, O Ressuscité’.*...