Antoine Le Quieu

Antoine Le Quieu (born February 23, 1601 in Paris , † October 7, 1676 in Cadenet ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman, Dominican and religious founder . He stands at the beginning of the Sacraments .

life and work

The young Dominican

Le Quieu grew up as the son of a parliamentary attorney in Paris and studied law. Under the influence of Barbe Acarie , he intended to become a Carmelite , but then entered the Dominican reform monastery, founded by Sébastien Michaëlis in 1612 in today's Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré , and made his profession in 1623 . He quickly rose to the position of novice master , first in Paris, then in Avignon .

The reformed Dominican

Le Quieu had an ideal of proselytizing the poor by poor Dominicans. To advertise a new observance with this special charism, he successfully traveled to Rome from 1635 to 1636 and after his return founded communities of his congregation Dominicains réformés du Saint-Sacrement (Reformed Dominicans of the Most Holy Sacrament) in Lagnes (1636), Le Thor (1637) , Marseille (1639, expelled in 1642), later also: Sault (1658), Cadenet (1660), Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux (1664), Vaison-la-Romaine (1672) and Bédoin (1676). As far as they still existed, the conventions were dissolved by the French Revolution in 1792 .

Foundation of the Sacraments

When Le Quieu was in Marseille in 1639, women were found who were interested in a community of sisters of the Most Holy Sacrament (with the special aim of eternal adoration ). It took 20 years for their congregation of the Sacraments to be canonically established by the Bishop of Marseille in 1659. After the closure by the French Revolution, foundations took place in Aix-en-Provence (1806) and Avignon (1807), which fled to Belgium (1902) and the United States (1912) before the Third Republic . They have been back in Céreste since 1981 .

Further work and death

Demanded by Le Quieu rigor (1640-1644 went his Dominican unshod ) met in the Order (and Cardinal Richelieu ) resistance. He traveled a second time to Rome 1642–1644 and had to submit. From 1648 to 1650 he was prior in Paris against his will , but was relieved on his third trip to Rome in 1650. Until his death (in the Cadenet monastery) at the age of 75, he founded and cared for his communities, to which he preached the three ideals that characterized him: contemplation, poverty, penance ( pénitence, recueillement, pauvreté ).

Works

Louis Potton (1824–1898) (Ed.): Oeuvres choisies du VP Antoine du T.-S.-Sacrement , accompagnées d'introduction et de notes et publiées par le RP Fr. Marie-Ambroise Potton. Veuve Poussielgue-Rusand, Paris 1864.
La Règle de saint Augustin et les constitutions des religieuses du St-Sacrement et de Notre-Dame sous la protection de saint Mathieu, apôtre et évangéliste , composées par le RP Antoine du Saint-Sacrement, leur fondateur. Avignon 1883

literature

Raphaël-Louis Oechslin: Une aventure spirituelle. La vie du Père Antoine du Saint-Sacrement Le Quieu . Editions Saint Paul, Paris 1967.
Louis (= Marie-Ambroise) Potton: Le VP Antoine et les Soeurs du Très-Saint-Sacrement ou de l'Adoration perpétuelle . Poussielgue, Paris 1894. Imprimerie des Croix Provençales, Aix-en-Provence 1942.
Vie du Père Antoine Lequieu du Saint-Sacrement . Pélagaud, Lyon 1847.

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personal data
SURNAME	Le Quieu, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French Roman Catholic clergyman, Dominican and founder of an order
DATE OF BIRTH	February 23, 1601
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	October 7, 1676
Place of death	Cadenet