Agnes of Langeac

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Agnes von Langeac , French: Agnès de Langeac , also: Agnès Galand or Agnès de Jésus (born November 17, 1602 in Le Puy-en-Velay , † October 19, 1634 in Langeac ) was a French Dominican and mystic . She is venerated as a blessed in the Catholic Church .

Life

The pious child

Agnès Galand was born in Le Puy ( 25 rue de l'Ouche ) as the third of seven children of a cutler and was baptized in the cathedral . Because of her precocious intelligence, she was sent to school and placed in the care of a Jesuit for guidance. At the age of seven she was already living a contemplative life with an examination of conscience and self-mortification. At the age of eight she went to first communion and took a vow of chastity. Her model was St. Catherine of Siena .

The Dominican

Agnes, who worked as a lace maker at home , oriented herself from 1619 to the Dominicans of the neighboring monastery of Saint-Laurent (today Saint-Laurent Church ) and was accepted into the Third Order of the Dominicans in 1621 . Her secret wish to be accepted into the Dominican convent Sainte-Catherine , which had existed in Le Puy since 1605 , failed because of the money. Her father was unable to raise the necessary dowry. In 1623, with the support of the residents of Le Puy, who recognized her saintly life and work, she was accepted as a converse in the subsidiary Langeac and on October 4th she was dressed as sister Agnès de Jésus (after Agnes of Montepulciano ).

Prioress at Langeac Monastery

In Langeac, Agnes was initially employed as a cook, but after an illness and first visions, she was accepted into the novitiate as a choir sister on September 28, 1624 . She made her profession on February 2, 1625 . She was installed as a gate nurse and, because of her excessive generosity towards the poor, deposed. In 1626 she was appointed novice mistress, shortly thereafter appointed acting superior and in 1627 elected prioress. In 1630 she was deposed by the Bishop of St Flour (and, to her delight, she was a simple nun for 14 months), but then re-elected subprioress and in 1734 prioress.

Adviser to Jean-Jacques Olier

Jean-Jacques Olier , 26-year-old Commendatabab of the Abbey of Pébrac, 15 km south of Langeac, who was living in Paris and who had decided on the basis of a vision to seriously look after his abbey and was traveling to the Auvergne, heard in Riom of Agnes, who lived as a saint , went to Langeac and had numerous conversations with her from June to September 1634, which, according to him, were decisive for his calling to reformer the French clergy and to found the Sulpizians .

Death and beatification

In October 1634, Agnes fell ill and died of pneumonia within a week at the age of 31. The numerous penitential exercises that she has imposed on herself since early childhood were probably one of the causes of early death. On Agne's instructions, the nuns burned all of their manuscripts. In 1660 the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of Le Puy was founded in the house where she was born. Mediated by Olier, Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort appealed to Agnes for his concept of the priest as the slave of Christ. Agnes was beatified in Rome on November 20, 1994 .

Literature (chronological)

  • Esprit Panassière SJ (1588–1675): Mémoires sur la vie d'Agnès de Langeac , ed. by Martin de Framond and Bertrand Lavaur. Cerf, Paris 1994.
  • Arnauld Boyre SJ (1572–1656): Mémoire incomplet du révérend père Boyre, jésuite, sur la vie et les vertus de la vénérable mère Agnès de Jésus . Langeac 2000.
    • (Partial print) Arnaud Boyre: Grand mémoire sur la mère Agnés de Langeac . Arfuyen, Orbey 2004.
  • Charles-Louis de Lantages (1616–1694): Vie de la Bienheureuse Agnès de Langeac . Edited by Jean-Claude Sagne (1936–2010). Cerf, Paris 2011 (preface by Henri Brincard , first Le Puy 1665, then numerous editions).
  • Marie-Emma Lachaud: Une Fleur de l'ordre de Saint-Dominique. Vie merveilleuse de la vénérable mère Agnès de Jésus, prieure du couvent de Sainte-Catherine de Sienne à Langeac . Tulle 1894.
  • Armand-Léon Müller (1901–1973): Une mystique dominicaine du XVIIe siècle. La Vénérable Mère Agnes de Langeac . Monastère Sainte-Catherine de Sienne (Langeac, Haute-Loire), Clermont-Ferrand 1963.
  • Marie de la Trinité, OP: Agnès de Langeac, moniale dominicaine, 1602–1634. Mère spirituelle de Jean-Jacques Olier . Monastère Sainte-Catherine, Langeac 1984, 1986, 2001.
  • Mère Agnès de Langeac et son temps. Une mystique dominicaine au Grand Siècle des Ames. Colloque Du Puy November 9-11, 1984 . Dominicaines de Mère Agnès, Le Puy 1986.
  • Ephraïm (Gérard Croissant): Agnès de Langeac. La colombe et l'agneau . Ed. du Lion de Juda, Nouan-le-Fuzelier 1989.
  • Renée de Tryon-Montalembert (1920–2007): Agnès de Langeac. "Qui a Dieu a tout" . Mame, Paris 1994 (foreword by Henri Brincard ).
  • Joachim Bouflet: Petite vie de Agnès de Langeac 1602–1634 . Desclée de Brouwer, Paris 1994.
  • Agnes de Langeac. Le souci de la vie en ses commencements. Actes du colloque de Langeac, from 15 to 17 October 2004 . Cerf, Paris 2006 (foreword by Henri Brincard).

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personal data
SURNAME Agnes of Langeac
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galand, Agnes; Galand, Agnes of Jesus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Roman Catholic nun, Dominican and blessed
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1602
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Puy-en-Velay
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1634
Place of death Langeac