Oratoire de France

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Seal of the Congregatio Oratorii Jesu et Mariae Immaculatae
Pierre de Bérulle as Cardinal (ca.1627)

The Congregation Oratoire de France (French Oratory) in honor of Jesus and the Immaculate Mary ( Congregatio Oratorii Jesu et Mariae Immaculatae (Abbr. OrJMI), French Oratorians) was founded in 1611 by Pierre de Bérulle (1575-1629). The oratorio is inspired by the oratorio of St. Philip Neri , but otherwise independent of it. Members of both communities are known as oratorians .

history

The Oratory of France was recognized by Pope Paul V in 1613 . During the 17th and 18th centuries it experienced a great expansion in France, where they devoted themselves to education and rivaled the Jesuits in the field: “Many of the priests followed the grace teachings of Jansenius and Augustine , which fundamentally devalued human life . “It is a society of apostolic life under papal law , consisting of priests and lay people who live in community without religious vows. The oratorio, which was founded by the later Cardinal Pierre de Bérulle on November 11, 1611 in Paris based on the Italian model, spread throughout France and later in other countries. The order was dissolved during the French Revolution in 1792 , but restored in the 19th century in 1852 by Alphonse Gratry (1805–1872) and Pierre Pététot (1801–1888). Since then, the French oratorians have mainly devoted themselves to the management of universities and seminars. It differs from the Roman oratorio “by a special expression of the spirituality of the piety of Christ and the veneration of Mary.” The members of the congregation included Charles de Condren , Jacques Joseph Duguet, Bernard Lamy , Nicolas Malebranche , Richard Simon , Jean-Baptiste Massillon , and Joseph Fouché , Pasquier Quesnel , Lucien Laberthonnière and many others. The Collège de Juilly in Juilly (Seine-et-Marne) , an educational institution under the direction of the French oratorians, had worked almost continuously from 1638 to 2012.

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ^ A b Anton Grabner-Haider, section: Pierre de Bérulle (1575–1629)
  2. ^ Fermeture du collège de Juilly - accessed December 2, 2019

literature

  • Paul Lallemand: Histoire de l'éducation dans l'ancien Oratoire de France. Reprod. de l'éd. de Paris, 1888. Genève, 1976 digitized version
  • Charles E. Williams: The French Oratorians and Absolutism, 1611-1641. New York: Lang, 1989
  • Gilbert Caffin: Grandes figures de l'Oratoire. Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris 2013 ( partial online view )
  • Anton Grabner-Haider : The great founders of the order. 2012 ( partial online view )
  • Milan Wehnert: A new generation of priests - Tridentine clerical culture in French Catholicism 1620–1640. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7954-3057-3

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Oratoire de France (alternative names of the lemma)
Oratoire de France; Congregatio Oratorii Iesu et Mariae; Oratory of Jesus; Société de l'oratoire de Jésus; Société de l'Oratoire de Jésus et de Marie; Société de l'Oratoire de Jésus et de Marie Immaculée; Congregatio Oratorii Iesu et Mariæ; French Oratory; Oratoire de Jésus-Christ; Oratoire de Jésus et Marie Immaculée