Louis Richeome (1544–1625) was a French
Jesuit theologian and controversialist. He also wrote under the pseudonyms "Ludovicus de Beaumanoir", "Felix de la Grace", and "Franciscus Montanus".
Life
Richeome was born in
Digne in 1544. He studied at the
Collège de Clermont under
Juan Maldonado and in 1565 joined the Society of Jesus.[1] In 1580 he was appointed principal of the student residence at the university of
Pont-à-Mousson.[2] He was instrumental in the Jesuit residence in
Bordeaux being allowed to reopen its college in 1603.[3] In 1605 he was appointed Father Provincial of the Lyon Province, and from 1608 to 1616 was in Rome as assistant to
Superior GeneralClaudio Acquaviva.[4] Richeome died in
Bordeaux on 15 September 1625.
Publications
L'adieu de l'âme devote laissant le corps (Tournon, Claude Michel and Guillaume Linocier, 1593)
as François des Montaignes, La verité defendue pour la religion catholique. En la cause des Jesuites, contre le plaidoyé d'Antoine Arnaud (Tolose, WIdow of Jacques Colomiez, 1595).
Available on Google Books
as Franciscus Montanus, Apologia pro Societate Jesu in Gallia contra Antonii Arnaldi advocati parisiensis philippicam (Ingolstadt, Adam Sartorius, 1596).
Available on Google Books
Trois discours pour la religion catholique (Bordeaux, S. Millanges, 1599).
Available on Google Books
Tableaux sacrez des figures mystiques du tresauguste sacrifice et sacrement de l'Eucharistie (Paris, Laurens Sonnius, 1601).
Available on Google Books
Holy Pictures of the Mysticall Figures of the Most Holy Sacrifice and Sacrament of the Eucharist, tr. C.A. (n.p., 1619).
Peregrinus Lauretanus, tr. Johann Haickstein (Cologne, Joannes Crithius, 1612).
Available on Google Books
The Pilgrime of Loreto, tr. Edward Walpole (Paris, 1629)
Expostulatio apologetica ad Henricum IV. pro Societate Jesu (Lyon, Horatius Cardon, 1606).
Available on Google Books
Miracula quae ad invocationem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae apud Tungros, Camberones et Servios in Hannonia ac Dominam gaudiorum in Picardia vulgo notre Dame de Liesse dictam effulsere ab anno 1081 ad annum usque 1605 (Douai, Charles Boscard, 1606).
Available on Google Books
Œuvres du R. Pere Louis Richeome (Paris, Sebastien Cramoisy, 1628),
vol. 1 on Google Books.
References
^Henri Brémond, Histoire littéraire du sentiment religieux en France, depuis la fin des guerres de religion jusqu'à nos jours, vol. 1, L'humanisme dévot, 1580-1660 (Pris, 1924), ch. 2.
^Mark Edward Motley, Becoming a French Aristocrat: The Education of the Court Nobility, 1580-1715 (
Princeton University Press, 1990), p. 111.
^Anthony D. Wright, The Divisions of French Catholicism (Routledge, 2016), p. 92.
^Eric Nelson, The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France, 1590-1615 (Ashgate, 2005), p. 120-121.
Further reading
Judi Loach, "An Apprenticeship in 'Spiritual Painting': Richeome's La Peinture spirituelle", in Ut pictura meditatio. The Meditative Image in Northern Art, 1500-1700, ed. Walter S. Melion, Ralph Dekoninck and Agnès Guiderdoni (Turnhout, 2012), pp. 337-399.
C. Sutto, "Le Père Louis Richeome et le nouvel esprit politique des Jésuites français", in Les Jésuites parmi les hommes aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, ed. G. Demerson et al. (Clermont Ferrand, 1987), pp. 175-184.
Louis Richeome (1544–1625) was a French
Jesuit theologian and controversialist. He also wrote under the pseudonyms "Ludovicus de Beaumanoir", "Felix de la Grace", and "Franciscus Montanus".
Life
Richeome was born in
Digne in 1544. He studied at the
Collège de Clermont under
Juan Maldonado and in 1565 joined the Society of Jesus.[1] In 1580 he was appointed principal of the student residence at the university of
Pont-à-Mousson.[2] He was instrumental in the Jesuit residence in
Bordeaux being allowed to reopen its college in 1603.[3] In 1605 he was appointed Father Provincial of the Lyon Province, and from 1608 to 1616 was in Rome as assistant to
Superior GeneralClaudio Acquaviva.[4] Richeome died in
Bordeaux on 15 September 1625.
Publications
L'adieu de l'âme devote laissant le corps (Tournon, Claude Michel and Guillaume Linocier, 1593)
as François des Montaignes, La verité defendue pour la religion catholique. En la cause des Jesuites, contre le plaidoyé d'Antoine Arnaud (Tolose, WIdow of Jacques Colomiez, 1595).
Available on Google Books
as Franciscus Montanus, Apologia pro Societate Jesu in Gallia contra Antonii Arnaldi advocati parisiensis philippicam (Ingolstadt, Adam Sartorius, 1596).
Available on Google Books
Trois discours pour la religion catholique (Bordeaux, S. Millanges, 1599).
Available on Google Books
Tableaux sacrez des figures mystiques du tresauguste sacrifice et sacrement de l'Eucharistie (Paris, Laurens Sonnius, 1601).
Available on Google Books
Holy Pictures of the Mysticall Figures of the Most Holy Sacrifice and Sacrament of the Eucharist, tr. C.A. (n.p., 1619).
Peregrinus Lauretanus, tr. Johann Haickstein (Cologne, Joannes Crithius, 1612).
Available on Google Books
The Pilgrime of Loreto, tr. Edward Walpole (Paris, 1629)
Expostulatio apologetica ad Henricum IV. pro Societate Jesu (Lyon, Horatius Cardon, 1606).
Available on Google Books
Miracula quae ad invocationem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae apud Tungros, Camberones et Servios in Hannonia ac Dominam gaudiorum in Picardia vulgo notre Dame de Liesse dictam effulsere ab anno 1081 ad annum usque 1605 (Douai, Charles Boscard, 1606).
Available on Google Books
Œuvres du R. Pere Louis Richeome (Paris, Sebastien Cramoisy, 1628),
vol. 1 on Google Books.
References
^Henri Brémond, Histoire littéraire du sentiment religieux en France, depuis la fin des guerres de religion jusqu'à nos jours, vol. 1, L'humanisme dévot, 1580-1660 (Pris, 1924), ch. 2.
^Mark Edward Motley, Becoming a French Aristocrat: The Education of the Court Nobility, 1580-1715 (
Princeton University Press, 1990), p. 111.
^Anthony D. Wright, The Divisions of French Catholicism (Routledge, 2016), p. 92.
^Eric Nelson, The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France, 1590-1615 (Ashgate, 2005), p. 120-121.
Further reading
Judi Loach, "An Apprenticeship in 'Spiritual Painting': Richeome's La Peinture spirituelle", in Ut pictura meditatio. The Meditative Image in Northern Art, 1500-1700, ed. Walter S. Melion, Ralph Dekoninck and Agnès Guiderdoni (Turnhout, 2012), pp. 337-399.
C. Sutto, "Le Père Louis Richeome et le nouvel esprit politique des Jésuites français", in Les Jésuites parmi les hommes aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, ed. G. Demerson et al. (Clermont Ferrand, 1987), pp. 175-184.