Jean Benedicti was a French

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theologian of the sixteenth century. He belonged to the

Observantine The Order of Friars Minor (also called the Franciscans, the Franciscan Order, or the Seraphic Order; Post-nominal letters, postnominal abbreviation OFM) is a Mendicant orders, mendicant Catholic religious order, founded in 1209 by Francis of ...

Province of

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and Poitiers. He became in time secretary of the order and in this capacity accompanied the minister-general, Christopher a Capite Fontium, throughout the whole of Europe in the latter's canonical visitation of Franciscan houses. Afterwards he was made commissary-general of the French and visitor of many Italian Provinces, and in order to fulfill a vow went on a pilgrimage to Palestine. Luke Wadding says that he was a man of distinguished parts and great culture, having mastered the learning of his day and being conversant with the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin tongues. His remains were interred in the Friary at Laval.

Works

In 1599 the first edition of his
Somme des péchés et le remède d'iceux comprenant tous les cas de conscience
was published in Paris and was immediately in demand among confessors. After having been revised, corrected, and augmented by the Theological Faculty of Paris it reached a fifteenth edition. He also wrote "La triomphante victoire de la Sainte Vierge" which tells of an

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in the church of the Cordeliers at

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References

;Attribution * The entry cites: ** Luke Wadding, ''Annales minor. ad ann.'', 1596, IV; **

Sbaralea Giovanni or Gian Giacinto Sbaraglia (1687–1764), otherwise Joannes Hyacinthus Sbaralea, was a historian of the Franciscan Order. Works include ''Supplementum et castigatio ad scriptores trium ordinum S. Francisi'' and '' Bullarium Franciscanum ...

, ''Supp. ad script. O.M.'' (Rome, 1806). {{DEFAULTSORT:Benedicti, Jean 16th-century French Catholic theologians French Friars Minor