Joseph Oudeau
Joseph Oudeau (* 1607 in Gray, Franche-Comté , † October 25, 1668 in Besançon ) was a French Jesuit and preacher .
Life
Joseph Oudeau received his training from the Jesuits and entered their order in 1826, but without being bound to them by indissoluble oaths. He first became a teacher of ancient languages and rhetoric . After seven years of this activity, he devoted himself exclusively to the ministry and appeared with great applause on the most important pulpits in Paris and Lyons . Towards the end of his life he retired to Besançon.
His works include:
- Les panégyriques des fondateurs des ordres religieux (Paris 1664), with a foreword in which the artifices of eulogies are explained
- L'illustre criminel, ou les inventions merveilleuses de la colère de Dieu dans la punition du pécheur, représenté par le roi Balthazar (Lyon 1665), a collection of Advent sermons on which the author worked for ten years
- Panégyriques pour toutes les fêtes de la Sainte-Vierge (Lyon 1665)
- Le prédicateur évangélique, ou discours pour tous les jours du carême (Lyon 1667), a collection of sermons for each day of Lent
- Le Banquet d'Élie ou les merveilles de la table de Jésus (Lyon 1668), sermons for the octave of the feast of Corpus Christi
literature
- Oudeau (Joseph) . In: Johann Samuelersch , Johann Gottfried Gruber : (Ed.): Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , 3rd section, 8th part (1836), p. 3.
- Oudeau (Joseph) , in: Louis Gabriel Michaud (Ed.): Biographie universelle ancienne et modern , 2nd edition, 1843–65, Vol. 31, p. 489 f.
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| SURNAME | Oudeau, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Jesuit and preacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1607 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gray, Franche-Comté |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1668 |
| Place of death | Besançon |