Simon Bougis

Simon Bougis (* 1630 in Sées , † July 1, 1714 in Paris ) was a French Benedictine monk , abbot and superior general of the congregation of Saint-Maur .

Life

Bougis was born as a scion of an old noble family in Normandy. He entered the Benedictine order (Congrégation de S. Maur) in 1650, completed his novitiate under Prior Vincent Marsolle and his deputy Claude Martin in the Abbey of Sainte-Trinité in Vendôme, and made his profession on July 6, 1651 .

After completing his studies in 1660, Bougis (also Bougy or Bougie ) became deputy to the prior in the abbey of Marmoutier , in 1665 prior in Lagny , in 1672 secretary to Superior General Vincent Marsolle and at the same time worked on the edition of Augustine's works . In 1682 after Marsolle's death, Bougis was elected prior of the Abbey of Saint Denis en France , in 1684 appointed a visitor to the Congregation for the Province of Normandy , and in 1687 prior of the Abbey of Saint-Ouen (Rouen).

In 1690 he became assistant to the superior general and fled to Vendôme when he himself was elected superior general in the chapter of 1699 in order not to have to take over the leadership of the congregation, so Dom Boistard was appointed instead.

Simon Bougis then served in the Abbey of Saint-Pierre-de-Jumièges and was elected as a visitor by the nuns of the Val-de-Grâce monastery in 1705 . After he could no longer avoid being appointed Superior General of the Congregation at the chapter of 1705, he carried out this office conscientiously until 1712. After a short illness, he died on July 1, 1714 in Paris and was in the chapel of Sainte-Vierge in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés Abbey buried next to Jean Mabillon .

Works

• Méditations pour les Novices et les jeunes Profès, et pour toutes sortes de personnes qui sont encore dans la vie purgative , Paris 1674; Translated into Latin by F. Mezger, Meditationes pro novitiis et juvenibus professis (unedited).
• Méditations pour tous les jours de l'année , Vol. I-II. Paris 1679.
• Lettre circulaire sur la mort de Dom Vincent Marsolle, Supérieur-Général de la Congrégation , 1681.
• Méditations sur les principaux devoirs de la vie religieuse , Paris 1699. (Cf. Georgios Fatouros in the Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon)

literature

• Georgios Fatouros :  Bougis, Simon. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 292-293.