Agnès Arnauld

At the left Mother Catherine-Agnès Arnault (1593 - 1671) and Sister Catherine de Sainte Suzanne de Champaigne (1636-1686). Philippe de Champaigne (1662)

Jeanne-Catherine-Agnès Arnauld (1593–1672), known as Mother Agnès Arnauld, was a member of the Arnauld family, abbess of Port-Royal and a major figure in French Jansenism.

Sister of Antoine Arnauld, "le Grand Arnauld" and of Mother Angélique Arnauld, she succeeded Angélique as head of the abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs de Paris in 1658, thus leading it during the most repressive anti-Jansenist period. She organised the movement against signing the Formulary of Alexander VII and for this was confronted by Hardouin de Péréfixe, archbishop of Paris. She was also the author of the Constitutions of Port-Royal, a text which ordered the material and spiritual rule in a spirit of Cistercian renewal.

Bibliography

Perle Bugnon-Secrétan, Mère Agnès Arnauld. 1593 - 1672. Abbesse de Port-Royal, Cerf, 1996, 272 p.

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Name	Arnauld
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Date of birth	1593
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Date of death	1672
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