- Antoine Touron
Antoine Touron (
5 September 1686 –2 September 1775 ), was a French Dominican biographer and historian.He was born at
Graulhet ,Tarn, France , the son of a merchant, and seems to have joined the Dominicans at an early age. After the completion of his studies he taught philosophy and theology to the students of his province (Toulouse ); but the later years of his life were devoted to biography, history, andapologetics . He died at Paris.He wrote twenty-nine books, dealing largely with the history of the Dominican order and the biographical sketches of its notable men.
Père Mortier , in his "Histoire des maîtres généraux de l'ordre des frères prêcheurs", made generous use of his "Histoire des hommes illustres...".Touron's writings include:
*"Vie de saint Thomas d'Aquin" (considered his best work)
*"Vie de saint Dominique avec une hist. abrégée des ses premiers disciples"
*"Hist. des hommes illustres de l'ordre de saint Dominique"
*"De la providence, traité hist., dogmat. et mor."
*"La main de Dieu sur les incrédules, ou hist. abrégée des Israélites", a work in which he shows that as often as the Chosen People proved false to their Divine vocation, they were punished by God
*"Parallèle de l'incrédule et du vrai fidèle"
*"La vie et l'esprit de saint Charles Borromée"
*"La verité vengée en faveur de saint Thomas"
*"Hist. génerale de l'Amérique depuis sa découverte", an ecclesiastical history of the New World.References
*
Mortier , Hist. des maîtres gén. de l'ordre des frères prêcheurs (5 vols., Paris, 1903-11), passim
*Hugo von Hurter , "Nomenclator literarius", III (Innsbruck, 1895),164-5.External links
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15001b.htm Source]
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