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(Secular name, JEAN-JOSEPH LOISEAUX), b. 5 Aug., 1815; d. in the Monastery of Ste. Claire,Bruges, 21 April 1904. As a student ofpriesthood he distinguished himself inmoral theology and canon law. After hisordination as asecular priest of theDiocese of Tournai,Belgium, in 1838, he continued his study of canon law atLouvain. In 1843 he was appointed avicar of thecathedral ofTournai, but the following year he went toRome, and there spent two years in theBelgiancollege, studying canon law and working for the congregations. He returned toBelgium in 1846 and the next year was appointed to the chair of canon law andecclesiastical history atLouvain. In 1847 in cooperation with Abbé Felise he founded the quarterly magazine, "Mélanges théologiques", and later the "Revue théologique" and the "Nouvelle revue théologique". The first was concerned chiefly with canon law; the second withliturgy. He continued to edit the "Nouvelle revue théologique" until 1895. when it passed into the hands of theRedemptorists. He twice refused the Bishopric ofTournai. In 1871 he entered theOrder of Capuchin Friars Minor. His chief works are: "Praelectiones juris regularis", a dissertation, "De sentia S. Bonaventurae circa essentiam sacramenti Poenitentiae"; "Traité du jubilé". He also wrote a great number of articles intheological reviews.
Analecta Ord. FF. Min. Capp. (Rome, July, 1904); Etudes franciscaines (Louvain, May, July, and August 1912).
APA citation.Hess, L.(1914).Piatus of Mons. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: The Encyclopedia Press.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16067a.htm
MLA citation.Hess, Lawrence."Piatus of Mons."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 16 (Index).New York: The Encyclopedia Press,1914.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16067a.htm>.
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Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1914. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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