Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly abbess of Port Royal de Champs

Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly (28 November 1624 – 29 January 1684) was a French

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. Niece of Angélique Arnauld, daughter of

Robert Arnauld d'Andilly Robert Arnauld d’Andilly (28 May 1589 – 27 September 1674, abbaye de Port-Royal-des-Champs)Jean Lesaulnier et Anthony McKenna dir., ''Dictionnaire de Port-Royal'', Paris, Honoré Champion, 2004, notice "Robert Arnauld d’Andilly", p. 108. wa ...

, and sister of

Antoine Arnauld Antoine Arnauld (6 February 16128 August 1694) was a French Catholic theologian, philosopher and mathematician. He was one of the leading intellectuals of the Jansenist group of Port-Royal and had a very thorough knowledge of patristics. Contem ...

and Simon Arnauld, Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly was from the Jansenist

Arnauld family The Arnauld or Arnaud family Lord de la Mothe, de Bessac, de la Besse, de Villeneuve, de Ronzière et d'Artonne, then d'Andilly, de Corbeville and Marquess de Pomponne is a noble French family prominent in the 17th century, and closely associated ...

Life

She entered the

Port-Royal-des-Champs Port-Royal-des-Champs was an abbey of Cistercian nuns in Magny-les-Hameaux, in the Vallée de Chevreuse southwest of Paris that launched a number of culturally important institutions. History The abbey was established in 1204, but became fa ...

in 1641 and taken her vows on 25 January 1644. Becoming sub-prior in 1653, she and her four sisters heavily opposed the formulary. Arrested in August 1664, she was held at the convent of the Annonciades until 1665. Refused the sacraments until the Clementine peace in 1669, she was made

abbess An abbess (Latin: ''abbatissa''), also known as a mother superior, is the female superior of a community of Catholic nuns in an abbey. Description In the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and Eastern Catholic), Eastern Orthodox, Coptic ...

in 1678.

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Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly published an account of her captivity (1711), the ''Conférences'', the ''Réflexions'', the ''Relations'' and was a collaborator on the ''Nécrologe de l'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Port-Royal des Champs, Ordre de Cîteaux, Institut du Saint Sacrement ; qui contient les éloges historiques avec les épitaphes des fondateurs & bienfaiteurs de ce monastère, & des autres personnes de distinction'' (1723). * ''Aux portes des ténèbres : Relation de captivité'', Préf. Sébastien Lapaque ; notes de Louis Cognet, Paris, Table ronde, 2005 * ''Relation de la captivité de la mère Angélique de Saint Jean, religieuse de Port-Royal des Champs'', Paris, Gallimard, 1954 * ''Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Port Royal ; et à la vie de la Révérende Mère Marie Angélique de Sainte Magdeleine Arnauld, Réformatrice de ce Monastère'', Utrecht, .n. 1742 * ''Lettres de la mère Angélique de S. Jean à Mr. Arnaud, écrites depuis que la communauté fut transférée à Port-Royal des Champs jusqu'à la paix de l'Église'', .l.s.n 1600–1699 * ''Conférences de la mère Angélique de Saint Jean, abbesse, sur les constitutions du monastère'', 1665

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* * Thomas M. Carr Jr., « Grieving Family and Community Ties at Port-Royal : Les Miséricordes of Angélique de Saint-Jean », in ''La Rochefoucauld ; Mithridate ; Frères et sœurs ; Les Muses sœurs'', Éd. et intro. Claire Carlin, Tübingen, Narr, 1998, pp. 171–79 * Thomas M. Carr Jr., ''Voix des abbesses du Grand Siècle : La Prédication au féminin à Port-Royal : Contexte rhétorique et Dossier'', Tübingen, Narr, 2006 * Michèle Bretz, « Le Combat des moniales de Port-Royal ou la primauté des droits de la conscience: Leurs Relations de captivité : Prolégomènes à leur étude », ''Romanische Forschungen'', 2005; 117 (2), pp. 165–86 * J. Millot, « Anne d'Autriche ou Arnauld d'Andilly ? », ''Bulletin du Bibliophile et du Bibliothécaire'', 1957; 1, pp. 11–16 *

Jean Orcibal Jean Orcibal (10 May 1913 – 18 December 1991) was a 20th-century French historian. A member of the École française de Rome between 1933 and 1939, from 1952 he was directeur d'études at the École pratique des hautes études in his specialt ...

, ''Port-Royal entre le miracle et l'obéissance ; Flavie Passart et Angélique de St.-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly'', Paris, Desclée De Brouwer 1957 * Reynès Monlaur, ''Grandes abbesses et moniales : correspondantes de Bossuet'', Marseille, Publiroc, 1928 * ''La Mère Angélique de Saint-Jean'', Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, 1986 {{DEFAULTSORT:Arnauld 1624 births 1684 deaths 17th-century French nuns Cistercian nuns Jansenists French Roman Catholic abbesses

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