Angélique Arnauld
Angélique Arnauld , French Jacqueline-Marie-Angélique Arnauld or Arnault (also called La Mère Angélique ; * September 8, 1591 in Paris , † August 6, 1661 in Port-Royal des Champs ) was abbess of Port-Royal, a stronghold of Jansenism .
Life
She was the third of twenty children of the lawyer Antoine Arnauld and one of the six sisters of Agnès Arnauld and the philosopher Antoine Arnauld . When she grew up with the Cistercians in Port-Royal, she was chosen as her successor by Abbess Jeanne de Boulehart at the age of eight. A few months before her 12th birthday, Angelica herself became abbess of Port-Royal on July 5, 1602. After that, she was better known as La Mère Angélique .
Shortly after becoming abbess, Mother Angelica began reforming her convent . She was also instrumental in reforming other conventions. In 1635 she came under the influence of Jean Duvergier de Hauranne , Abbot of Saint-Cyran, one of the leading exponents of Jansenism. During the controversy over the confessional writings during the 17th century and the persecution of Port-Royal's beliefs from 1648 to 1652, she was forced to sign a condemnation of the five cornerstones of Jansenism. Her niece Angélique de Saint-Jean and her nephew Antoine Le Maistre convinced Angelika to write an autobiography that dealt primarily with the history of the persecution of Jansenism and that of the resistance against it.
literature
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Arnauld, Angélique (actually: Jacqueline-Marie), Abbess of Port-Royal des Champs. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 221-222.
- Louis Cognet: La mère Angélique et son temps. La reforme de Port-Royal. 1591-1618. Sulliver, Paris 1950.
- Angela Hämel-Stier: Women around Franz von Sales. Franz Sales Verlag, Eichstätt et al. 1954, pp. 177-233.
- Frances Martin: Angélique Arnauld. Abesse of Port Royal. Macmillan & Co, London 1873, ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Biography, literature & sources on Angélique Arnauld FemBio of the Institute for Women's Biography Research
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Ella K. Sanders: Angélique of Port Royal. 1591-1661. Skeffington, London 1905, (English).
- ↑ Alexander Sedgwick: The Travails of Conscience. The Arnauld Family and the Ancien Régime (= Harvard historical Studies. 128). Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA et al. 1998, ISBN 0-674-90567-9 , p. 8 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnauld, Angélique |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arnauld, Jacqueline-Marie-Angélique (full name); Jacqueline-Marie-Angélique Arnault (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French abbess |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1591 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1661 |
| Place of death | Port-Royal des Champs |