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Jacques Le Bossu

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French theologian and Doctor of the Sorbonne, born at Paris 1546; died at Rome 1626. He entered the Benedictine Order at the Royal Abbey of St. Denis, of which he became claustral prior. He was preceptor to the Cardinal de Guise and took a prominent part in the Catholic League and the disputes concerning the successor to Henry III, whose death he considered to be a just punishment. The accession of Henry IV, against whom he had written, and the execution of de Guise in 1587 necessitated his leaving France in 1591, and he went to Rome, where he entered the service of the Curia. He was made a consultor of the Congregatio de Auxiliis, established in 1599 to settle the controversy on grace between the Dominicans and the Jesuits. On its dissolution, in 1607, he desired to return to France, but the pope, Paul V, kept him in Rome. His chief work consisted of "Animadversiones" against twenty-five propositions of Molina, a Spanish Jesuit who had written a book on grace, defending the doctrines of Scotus against those of the Dominicans. The "Animadversiones" were published by Antonio Raynaldo, the Dominican, in 1644. Le Bossu's "Diarium Congregationisde Auxiliis" has unfortunately perished.

Sources

Ziegelbauer, Hist. Lit. O.S.B. (Augsburg, 1754), III, 371; Hurter, Nomenclator (Innsbruck, 1892), I, 270.

Bibliography Information
Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Jacques Le Bossu'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​j/jacques-le-bossu.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
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