Jean-Baptiste Baudoin

Jean-Baptiste Baudoin (born 11 January, 1831 in Juniville, France; died 15 November, 1875 in Juniville) was a French Catholic priest and missionary in Iceland.

Life

Baudoin and Bernard Bernard (1821-1895) were the first Catholic priests serve in Iceland after the Reformation. They arrived in 1857 (Bernard) and 1858 (Baudoin) respectively, and built a small chapel at the Landakot farmstead near Reykjavík [See Gunnar F. Guðmundsson, "Kaþólskt trúboð á Íslandi 1857-1875", Reykjavík: Sagnfræðistofnun Háskóla Íslands 1987.] . They met with a difficult reception and in 1862 Bernard left the country, while Baudoin persevered until 1875.

Baudoin was occupied with polemics all the time he lived in Iceland (1858-1875). He wrote many articles in newspapers in order to answer criticism against the Catholic Church. In addition to that he wrote several books in Icelandic (see the bibliography below), e.g. a booklet with the title "Jesús Kristr er guð þrátt fyrir mótmæli Magnúsar Eiríkssonar" (1867) ["Jesus Christ is God in spite of the protest of Magnús Eiríksson"] , which was aimed at the book by the Icelandic Theologian Magnús Eiríksson, entitled "Er Johannes-Evangeliet et apostolisk og ægte Evangelium" ["Is the Gospel of John an apostolic and true Gospel"] (1863). [See Eiríksson’s response to it, entitled "Nokkrar athugasemdir um Sannanir “katólsku prestanna í Reykjavík” fyrir guðdómi Jesú Krists", Copenhagen 1868.]

Main works

* "Útskýring um trú katólsku kirkjunnar í þeim trúaratriðum, þar sem ágreiningr er milli hennar og mótmælenda", Reykjavík 1865.
* [Anonymous] , "Svar hinna katólsku presta upp á 1. bréfið frá París eptir Eirík Magnússon. Hvað segir sagan um Parísarbréfið?", Reykjavík 1866.
* "Jesús Kristr er guð. Þrátt fyrir mótmæli herra Magnúsar Eiríkssonar", Reykjavík 1867.
* [Anonymous] , "Er það satt eðr ósatt, sem hra Jónas Guðmundsson segir um bækling vorn: "Jesús Kristr er Guð" o. s. frv.?", Reykjavík 1867.
* "Til Íslendinga : um Lestrarbók handa alþýðu, eftir séra Þórarinn Böðvarsson". Reykjavík 1875.

econdary literature on Baudoin

* Gunnar F. Guðmundsson, "Kaþólskt trúboð á Íslandi 1857-1875", Reykjavík: Sagnfræðistofnun Háskóla Íslands 1987.
* "St. Ansgar. Jahrbuch des St.-Ansgarius Werkes", Cologne 1983, pp 70-81.

References

ee also

* Religion_in_Iceland#Catholic_revival
* Landakotskirkja
* Magnús Eiríksson

Persondata
NAME=Baudoin, Jean-Baptiste
SHORT DESCRIPTION=French Catholic priest and missionary in Iceland
DATE OF BIRTH=11 January 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH=Juniville, France
DATE OF DEATH=15 November 1875
PLACE OF DEATH=Juniville, France