Jean Porthaise

Jean Porthaise , or Jean Porthais , Jean Porthaesius , Jean Porthau (towards 1520, Saint-Denis-with-Gastines (Mayenne) - towards 1602), religious cordelier, controversist and theologist French.

Biography

He was dedicated a Catholique which was often made conspicuous by the extravagance of its speeches or its behavior. He made profession with the convent of Laval, was in 1564 with the Sand-with Olonne when he proposed with Jean Trioche, minister of Châteauneuf, tournaments theological which was to be held in the presence of the Protestant nobility, with the castle of the Fountain in Etriché, at Hector de Chivré. The minister did not come. Porthaise then addressed in writing series of questions to him and retorted with the answer that made him Trioche, assisted of two other doctors, by the Catholiques demonstrations on certain speeches of the catholic doctrines (Paris, 1565, in-8°, with privilege of 1564), work republished in 1567 (in-8 20 ffts not quantified, and 187 quantified)

The burning cordelier, after having preached with Saint-Martin-of-Turns, went to fight the Protestants of the Netherlands, published in Antwerp, against Flach Francowitz, said Flaccus Illiricus , an opuscule on the Cène: Of verbis Domini: Hoc facite in meam commemorationem (1567 - 1586), and Christian declaration of the Church and the Eucharistie, in form of response to the book named the Fall and Ruins Roman Church (in-8° 488 p.).

Several notable conversions crowned the efforts and work of Porthaise. It returned to take its functions with Tours, then passed to Poitiers, there preached with the same heat, published a treaty vanity and truth of true and distorts astrology against the imposters of our century (Poitiers, 1578; Paris, 1579, in-8°), and attracted itself like always hatred and the insults of the Huguenot S. It published in Bordeaux, in 1580, the Interdits catholics, truths and legitimate children of the Church of J. - C., where certain points against the modern heretics are deduced, and to maintain its assertions against an adversary which avaot taken the feather on this subject: Defense in Response made with Prohibited Bernard de Pardieu by the Ministers for R.P.R. (Poitiers, 1580, in-8°).

Definitor of the Order in 1582, it was charged by the general Father François de Gonzague with judging the election of the gradien large convent of Paris, Jean Duret, which the court against Rome supported. He had wanted to deposit it, but he failed in front of the obstinacy of the religieuxs supported by the king and the Parliament. Having refused in abusive terms to go to him even to the bar Parliament, he lives himself driven out, blamed by the pope, but the following year provincial of Touraine was not named less by it. He was undoubtedly later guard of the convent of Fontenay-the-Count in Poitou, whose doctor Pierre Victor Cayet, new convert, says it abbot in 1591.

Theological of Poitiers of 1594 with 1602, it was one of the last champions of the Ligue, preaching with a violent dispute of the royal authority legitimates against the simulated conversion of the king Henri IV and publishing his sermons (Paris, 1594, in-8°). It went finally with glare. It wished to translate the bible of Hebrew into French, but this project was broken by the death of the old man and hard franciscain.

Testimonys

the Cross of Maine qualifies it extremely learned man are languages and of the most famous theologists of its kind . Florimond de Raimond writes that it was the ornament and the glory of the Ordre of Saint-François . Jacques-Auguste de Thou says it pedant and impudent, aliqua litterarum ostentatione clarus, caeterum impudentia singulari praeditus . Finally Isaac Casaubon writes to him in 1603 with respect because of its great age and its scholarship . A Angevin, Jean Lemasle, investigator with Baugé, its contemporary, as burning as him in the religious quarrels, made print with the Arrow, in 1575, Poème on the life of Jean Porthasius, religious cordelier . The Speech of the origin of the Gallic whole of Manceaux and Angevins, by Jean Masle, Angevin , printed to the Arrow, 1575 (23 p., in-8°) is dedicated to the Porthaise Father.

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