Jean-Baptiste Guesnay (1585 - November 4, 1658) was a French Jesuit and author.
Biography
editHe was born in Aix-en-Provence. He died in Avignon.
He opposed the views expressed by Jean de Launoy, who had dismissed the Provençal legends of Mary Magdalene as pious nonsense.[1]
Works
edit- Magdalena Massiliensis advena, seu de adventu Magdalenae in Gallias, & Massiliam appulsu. Disquisitio theologica historica (1643)
- Le triomphe de la Madeleine en la créance et vénération de ses reliques en Provence (1647). Published under the pseudonym of Denis de la Sainte-Baume
- Provinciae Massiliensis ac reliquae Phocensis Annales, sive Massilia gentilis et christiana; read online
References
edit- ^ Ludwig Jansen, Katherine (2001). The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages. Princeton University Press. p. 11. ISBN 9780691089874.
Further reading
edit- Michel Feuillas - La Controverse magdalénienne au milieu du XVIIè siècle. Ripostes provençales à Jean de Launoy [1]
- Étienne-Michel Faillon, Monuments inédits sur l'apostolat de sainte Marie-Madeleine en Provence et sur les autres apôtres de cette contrée : saint Lazare, saint Maximin, sainte Marthe et les saintes Maries Jacobé et Salomé, J.-P. Migne, 1848
- Bibliotheque des Ecrivains de la Compagnie de Jesus, ou Notices Biblographiques. pp.279-282 [2]
