- Jacques Le Bossu
Jacques Le Bossu (born at Paris 1546; died at Rome 1626) was a French
Benedictine theologian and Doctor of theSorbonne .Life
He entered the Benedictine Order at the
Royal Abbey of St. Denis , of which he becameclaustral prior . He was preceptor to theCardinal de Guise and took a prominent part in theCatholic League and the disputes concerning the successor toHenry III of France , whose death he considered to be a just punishment.The accession of
Henry IV of France , against whom he had written, and the execution of de Guise in 1587 necessitated his leaving France in 1591, and he went to Rome, where he entered the service of theCuria . He was made a consultor of theCongregatio de Auxiliis , established in 1599 to settle the controversy ongrace between theDominicans and theJesuits .On its dissolution, in 1607, he desired to return to France, but the pope,
Pope Paul V , kept him in Rome.Works
His chief work consisted of "Animadversiones" against twenty-five propositions of
Molina , a Spanish Jesuit who had written a book on grace, defending the doctrines ofDuns Scotus against those of the Dominicans. The "Animadversiones" were published by Antonio Raynaldo, the Dominican, in 1644.Le Bossu's "Diarium Congregationis de Auxiliis" has been lost.
References
*Ziegelbauer, Hist. Lit. O.S.B. (Augsburg, 1754), III, 371;
*Hugo von Hurter , Nomenclator (Innsbruck, 1892), I, 270.
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