Madeleine Lhuillier de Sainte Beuve

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Madeleine Lhullier de Sainte Beuve 1562–1630

Madeleine de Lhullier de Sainte Beuve (* 1562 ; † August 29, 1630 in Paris ) belonged to a Catholic reform movement and was the founder of the Paris Convention of the Ursulines .

Life

Madeleine Lhullier was born in 1562 as the daughter of the influential Paris Mayor Pierre Lhullier, who had increased his prosperity by the arrival of Henry IV in Paris. In 1581 Madeleine Lhullier married the Councilor Claude Le Rox, Sieur de Sainte Beuve from Rouen.

After her husband's death, Madeleine Lhullier was able to freely dispose of the considerable father's fortune. Under the influence of her confessor, the Jesuit Lancelot Marin, she took in 1608 two members of the Ursulines from Aix, founded in Italy in 1532, in her palace in Faubourg Saint-Jacques . By 1612, the palace on Rue Saint-Jacques was converted into the first Ursuline convent in Paris. The project was supported by Pope Paul V , who in the bull of June 13, 1612 defined the aim of the order, the education of young girls.

The strict rules of the Ursulines were based on those of the Augustinian order. The order quickly became popular among the nobility and high officials. The ambience of the new monastery with courtyards, gardens and spacious apartments also contributed to this. What was new was the spatial separation of the convent from the school area and the student accommodation by a church. Madeleine Lhullier admired Peter Paul Rubens and commissioned his pupil Pieter Van Mol to decorate the church. Further monasteries were founded under Madeleine Lhullier's leadership in the following years, so that the order was present throughout France until 1650. The founding in Loudun in 1626 became notorious due to the mass madness of the devils of Loudun . Madelein Lhullier de Sainte Beuve died on August 29, 1630 in Paris.

literature

  • Pastor u. a .: The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the Secret Archives of the Vatican. Bibliobazaar, 2009, ISBN 978-1-113-22059-2 , p. 63.
personal data
SURNAME Lhuillier de Sainte Beuve, Madeleine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lhullier, Madeleine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder of the Ursuline convent in Paris
DATE OF BIRTH 1562
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1630
Place of death Paris