John Collet

John Collet , (born with London in January 1467, † on September 10th, 1519), is an English man of the church, and a pioneer of the Pédagogie.

Biography

Oldest son of Sir Henry Collet, (Lord Mayor of London of 1486 to 1495), it attended the seminar of Anthony' S school then Magdalen College in Oxford, where he was graduate Master are arts in 1490. Having ecclesiastical benefit in Dennington in the Suffolk, he was initially vicar of St Dunstan (Stepney), then principal of Thurning (Hunts). In 1493 he travelled to Paris then in Italy, to study there the Canon law and the Civil law, the Patristique and the old Greek .

There, it made the meeting of Guillaume Budé and Erasme, and Florence attended with the sermons of Jerome Savonarole. On its return in England (1496) it is ordered priest and is established with Oxford, where it pronounced conferences on the letters of Saint Paul, substituent with the traditional interpretation of the comments closer to the original Greek text. Its methods had a major influence on Erasme, which visited the university of Oxford in 1498, and which accepted thereafter a pension on behalf of John Colet.

Since 1494, Colet profited from Prébendes to York, and as a canon of Martin Saint the Large one in London. In 1502 they increased emoluments with Salisbury, in 1505 with the Cathédrale St Paul, of which it was almost immediately named canon, having just obtained its diploma for the occupation of Doctor of Divinity. He continued his conferences on the books of the Bible and shortly after created at Saint Paul a perpetual pulpit of theology, three days per week. About 1508, having inherited a considerable fortune his/her father, Colet undertook to reform the seminar of Saint Paul, which it had in the long term carried out in 1512, and provided the school with an annual equipment minimum of 122£. The grammairien William Lilye was the first professor, while the guild of the London drapers agreed to stand as guarantor (1510) of it, first example of a laic management of a school. The religious opinions of the Colet senior were so liberal that one suspected it of heresy; but the archbishop of Canterbury, William Warham, refused his committal for trial. Besides the king Henry VIII held it in high regard in spite of his reproaches against the made war in France.

In addition to its functions already mentioned, it directed the guild of Jesus to the cathedral of Saint-Paul and was useful as chaplain of the king Henry VIII. In 1514 it made the pilgrimage of Canterbury, and in 1515 the sermon at the time of the reception of the cardinal's hat of Thomas Wolsey pronounced. Collet died of the Suette, and was buried on the southern part of the chorus of the church Saint Paul, its tomb stone bearing of another inscription only its simple name.

Collet, if it never planned to break with the Roman Catholic church, was not less one reformer with the manner of Erasme, in particular disapproving the Confession and the celibacy of the priests. Major authority of the church of England, it contributed to the disintegration of the medieval rites and beliefs, and propagated the humanistic ideal .

Still nowadays, the work of Collet is celebrated with the Cathédrale St Paul.

Works

Absolutissimus of octo orationis partium constructione libellus (Antwerp, 1530)
Rudimenta Grammatices (London, 1539)
Daily Devotions , Monition to has Godly Life , Epistolæ AD Erasmum , and various comments of books of the Bible.

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