Emmanuel Renault

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Emmanuel Renault OCD (born March 15, 1922 in Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe , † April 1, 2010 in Lisieux ) was a French Roman Catholic religious .

Life

Emmanuel Renault was a mountain fighter in the French army during World War II . After the western campaign of the German Wehrmacht and the capitulation of France in the summer of 1940, Renault became involved in de Gaulle 's resistance movement "Free France" ( Forces françaises libres ). During an attempt to escape he was briefly captured by the Spanish Frankists , but was able to escape as the alleged corpse of a Moroccan sniper. He was a participant in Operation Dragoon when it landed in Provence on August 15, 1944, and later also in Alsace.

After the end of the war he was accepted into the French military school Saint-Cyr, but joined the order of the Discalced Carmelites in Issy-les-Moulineaux , southwest of Paris, and attended the Saint Sulpice seminary there. On October 15, 1950, he made his profession in Bordigné dans la Sarthe and studied at the papal faculty Teresianum in Rome. He was Definitor General from 1979 to 1991 and Vicar of the Order from 1985 to 1991 under the Generalate of Felipe Sainz de Baranda OCD.

Renault was particularly committed to reorganizing the order's constitutions. He was a councilor for the Discalced Carmelite Federations for 25 years . Renault was considered an expert on the life and work of Teresa von Ávila and Therese von Lisieux and published numerous works on this as well as on the Carmel Spirituality.

Fonts

  • The Carmelites. (The contemplative ideal of life of the discless Carmelites). Karmel St. Josef, Vienna 1984.
  • Therese von Lisieux, Carmelite. The rule, the freedom and the love. Paque, Ramstein 2004, ISBN 3-9807872-6-5 .
  • The test of faith. The fight of Therese von Lisieux. April 1896 to September 30, 1897. Paulinus-Verlag, Trier 2008, ISBN 978-3-7902-0186-4 .
  • What Therese von Lisieux owes to John of the Cross. Echter, Würzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-429-03029-2 .
  • L'influence de sainte Thérèse d'Avila sur Thérèse de Lisieux. Editions du Carmel Toulouse 2009, ISBN 978-2-84713-123-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Renault, Emmanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Renault, Emmanuel OCD
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French religious
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2010
Place of death Lisieux