Pierre de Bérulle

Pierre de Bérulle (* February 4, 1575 in Cérilly Castle in Troyes, Aube, † October 2, 1629 in Paris) was a French theologian, Cardinal and first Superior General of the French Oratory.

Life

He studied at the Jesuit College in Clermont, began in 1595 with studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and was ordained a priest in 1599. The retreat in 1602 when the Jesuits were crucial to his life. He supported Cardinal Duperron in his public debates with the Protestant Philippe de Mornay, and was a leader of the Counter-Reformation in France.

In 1604 he led together with a cash Acarie the Discalced Carmelite nuns in France and founded in 1611 in Paris, following the example Filippo Neri, the French Oratory ( Congregation of Mary Immaculate et Oratorii Jesus ), a different congregation of secular priests to care for the pastoral care and science. In 1613 it was confirmed as a papal " Oratory of Our Lord Jesus Christ." With its Christocentric, ascetical and mystical theology, he laid the foundation for the " École française de spiritualité " ( German: "French School of Spirituality "). The focus of his ascetical path, the consideration of the incarnation of God was. Pope Urban VIII called him in the survey of Cardinal Apostulus Verbi incarnati. Through his " École française de Spiritualité " he exerted a almost impossible to survey impact on the French clergy of the following centuries. Among his pupils Vincent de Paul, Jean Eudes, Louis -Marie de Montfort, Charles de Condren, Jean- Jacques Olier and others can be counted.

On behalf of the French court, he was also politically active. In 1625 he tried to celebrate the marriage of Henriette de France with Charles I. unsuccessfully recatholicization England. On August 30, 1627, he was cardinal, and in 1628 President of the State Council. He tried a union of the Catholic forces in France, but failed at his opponent Cardinal Richelieu.

Works (selection)

  • Oeuvres complètes / Pierre de Bérulle. Paris: Oratory of Jésus; Paris: Les Éd. du Cerf, 1994ff.
  • Traité des énergumènes. Troyes, 1599
  • Discours de l' état ​​et des grandeurs de Jésus. Paris, 1623
  • Correspondance. J. Ferrer, 3 vols, Paris 1937-39
  • Memorandum to the soul of leadership. Edited by Linus Bopp, 1957
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