Jacqueline Bouette de Blémur

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Jacqueline Bouette de Blémur (born January 8, 1618 , † March 24, 1696 in Paris ) was a French Benedictine , religious historian and hagiographer .

life and work

The Benedictine

The Normandy-born noble Jacqueline Bouette de Blémur was sent to the Abbaye aux Dames in Caen in 1623 at the age of five , where she grew up in the care of an aunt who was a nun there. In 1629 she was dressed at the age of eleven, and in 1633 at the age of 15 she was appointed novice master . Under Abbess Laurence de Burdos de Portes (1598–1650) she was prioress and secretary to the abbess. Under Abbess Marie Léonor de Rohan-Montbazon (1650-1681) she was moved in 1678 to the Paris reform monastery Monastère de l'Adoration perpétuelle du Très Saint Sacrement (the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament ) in Rue Cassette, founded in 1654 by Mechtilde de Bar . The reason for this arose from the intention of Elisabeth Angélique de Montmorency to found a monastery of the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament in her estate in Châtillon-sur-Loing (today Châtillon-Coligny ) , which, however, only came about 10 years later, as Mother Blémur was too old for the job. In the Rue Cassette, Mother Blémur had to go through a new novitiate. She died there as a simple sister at the age of 78.

The learned biographer and hagiographer

Under the title L'année Bénédictine (The Benedictine Church Year), Mother Blémur wrote the biographies of all the saints of the Benedictine order on around 5000 pages , arranged according to the day of worship in the calendar year, a scholarly work, for the publication of which (from 1667 to 1673) she was arranged by Pierre Daniel Huet was encouraged. Under the title Éloges (Laudationes) she added the biographies of other saintly Benedictines in 1679 on 1,300 pages. Under the title Vies des Saints (Heiligenleben), she arranged extra-Benedictine saints according to the calendar year. Further extensive works were added.

Works

Biographies in the order of the calendar year

  • L'année Benedictine , or Les vies des Saints de l'Ordre de Saint Benoist, pour tous les jours de l'année. 7 vols. Louis Billaine († 1681), Paris 1667–1673. (Also in Italian, Venice 1727)
    • January and February. 1667.
    • March and April. 1667.
    • May and June. 1668.
    • July and August. 1670.
    • September and October. 1670.
    • November. 1673.
    • December. 1673.
  • Éloges de plusieurs personnes illustres en pieté de l'Ordre de Saint Benoist décedées en ces derniers siècles . 2 vols. Louis Billaine, Paris 1679.
  • Vies des Saints tirée des auteurs ecclésiastiques anciens et modern, divisée en 4 tomes, augmentée de plusieurs Vies qui n'ont point encore paru en notre langue. 2 vols. Pierre Valfray, Lyon 1689.

Other works

  • Exercice de la mort contenant various pratiques de dévotion très-utiles pour se disposer à bien mourir. Louis Billaine, Paris 1677. (356 pp.)
  • La Vie du Révérend Père Pierre Fourrier , général des chanoines réguliers de la congrégation de Notre Sauveur et instituteur des religieuses de la Congrégation de Notre-Dame, curé de Mataincour. Louis Billaine, Paris 1678, 1687. (Life of Saint Pierre Fourier )
  • (together with) François Poiré (1584–1637): Grandeurs de la Mère de Dieu . Louis Billaine, Paris 1681; Poitiers, Oudin, Poitiers 1864. (Dedicated to Queen Maria Teresa of Spain (1638–1683) )
    • (German) The triple crown of the Blessed Virgin Mother of God . Manz, Regensburg 1852.
  • Ménologe historique de la Mère de Dieu . Veuve Louis Billaine, Paris 1682. (About the Marian feasts in the calendar year, 858 pages)
  • Abrégé de la vie de la vénérable Mère Charlotte Le Sergent , dite de S. Jean l'Evangéliste, Religieuse de l'Abbaye Royale de Montmartre. Paris, Florentin Lambert, Paris 1685. (About the Benedictine nun Charlotte Le Sergent, 1604–1677, 305 pp.)

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SURNAME Blémur, Jacqueline Bouette de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blémur, Marie-Jacqueline Bouette de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Benedictine and religious historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1618
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1696
Place of death Paris