Francis Ernest Charles Gigot (1859– June 14, 1920)
["Gigot, Father Francis", Society of St. Sulpice, Province of the United States]
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The Society of Priests of Saint-Sulpice (french: Compagnie des Prêtres de Saint-Sulpice), abbreviated PSS also known as the Sulpicians is a society of apostolic life of Pontifical Right for men, named after the Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris ...
who published many religious books.
Biography
Born in Indre
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, France in 1859, Gigot was educated at the seminary in Limoges
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before attending the Institut Catholique de Paris
The Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP), known in English as the Catholic University of Paris (and in Latin as ''Universitas catholica Parisiensis''), is a private university located in Paris, France.
History: 1875–present
The Institut Catholiq ...
, where he was a student of the liberal Alfred Loisy
Alfred Firmin Loisy (; 28 February 18571 June 1940) was a French Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic priest, professor and theology, theologian generally credited as a founder of Modernism (Roman Catholicism), modernism in the Roman Catholic Church. ...
. He was ordained in 1883.[
Gigot emigrated to America and taught Scripture at St. John's Seminary, Brighton, Massachusetts (1885–1899), where he was mentor to the Paulist James Martin Gillis, then St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore and to St. Austin’s College in Washington, D.C.(1899–1904), then St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie (1904–1920).][
A respected Scripture scholar, he contributed articles to the '']Catholic Encyclopedia
The ''Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church'' (also referred to as the ''Old Catholic Encyclopedia'' and the ''Original Catholic Encyclopedia'') i ...
'', the '' American Ecclesiastical Review'', the ''Irish Theological Quarterly
''Irish Theological Quarterly'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes systematic, moral, and historical theology as well as sacred scripture. It was established by Walter McDonald and Dr. John Harty in 1906, published by ...
'', and the ''New York Review''.
Gigot held revisionist views of Scripture and the Sulpician leadership in Paris wanted Rector Father James Francis Driscoll to rein Gigot in. Driscoll and Gigot "chafed against the scholasticism which they refused to see as exhaustive of orthodoxy". Gigot and the others left the Sulpicians to join the Archdiocese of New York.
He was a member of the American Oriental Society and the New York Oriental Club.''The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers'', 1917, p. 65
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Gigot died at St. Vincent's Hospital, Manhattan in 1920.
Works
* ''General introduction to the study of the Holy Scriptures''. Abridged ed. By Rev. Francis E. Gigot New York Cincinnati tc.Benziger brothers. 1900, 1904.
* '' Outlines of Jewish History'', Benziger brothers. 1918
* ''A Primer of Old Testament History'', The Paulist Press. 1919
References
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1859 births
1920 deaths
French Roman Catholic priests
Contributors to the Catholic Encyclopedia