Antoine Pagi
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Antoine Pagi was a French ecclesiastical historian. After studying with the Jesuits in Aix, he entered the monastery of the Conventual Franciscans
in Arles
, and made solemn profession
on 31 January 1641. For some twenty-nine years he was elected provincial, an office which he held four times.
Pagi's first volume was printed during his lifetime (Paris, 1689); the remaining three volumes, reaching till the year 1198, the last year in the work of Baronius, were completed in manuscript shortly before his death. The whole work was edited in four volumes by his nephew François Pagi
: Critica historico-chronologica in universos annales ecclesiasticos em. et rev. Caesaris Card. Baronii (Geneva, 1705; second ed., 1727). Mansi
embodied it in his edition of the "Annales" of Baronius (Lucca, 1736–59). The "Critica" itself is not free of errors.
Conventual Franciscans
The Order of Friars Minor Conventual , commonly known as the Conventual Franciscans, is a branch of the order of Catholic Friars founded by Francis of Assisi in 1209.-History:...
in Arles
Arles
Arles is a city and commune in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the former province of Provence....
, and made solemn profession
Profession (religious)
The term religious profession is defined in the 1983 Code of Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church in relation to members of religious institutes as follows:By religious profession members make a public vow to observe the three evangelical counsels...
on 31 January 1641. For some twenty-nine years he was elected provincial, an office which he held four times.
Works
He devoted his spare time to the study of history. Discerning numerous chronological errors, and frequently misstatements of facts in the Annales ecclesiastici of Baronius, he made it his life-work to correct them and otherwise elucidate the work.Pagi's first volume was printed during his lifetime (Paris, 1689); the remaining three volumes, reaching till the year 1198, the last year in the work of Baronius, were completed in manuscript shortly before his death. The whole work was edited in four volumes by his nephew François Pagi
François Pagi
François Pagi was a French Franciscan historian of the Catholic Church.-Life:Pagi was born at Lambesc in Provence....
: Critica historico-chronologica in universos annales ecclesiasticos em. et rev. Caesaris Card. Baronii (Geneva, 1705; second ed., 1727). Mansi
Giovanni Domenico Mansi
Gian Domenico Mansi was an Italian theologian, scholar and historian, known for his massive works on the Church councils....
embodied it in his edition of the "Annales" of Baronius (Lucca, 1736–59). The "Critica" itself is not free of errors.
Other publications
- Dissertatio hypatica seu de consulibus xsareis (Lyons, 1682), printed also in Apparatus in Annales ecclesiasticos (Lucca, 1740), pp. 1–136;
- Dissertatio de die et anno mortis S. Martini ep. turonensis and a few minor treatises in defense of his Dissertatio hypatica, in which he had set down various rules for determining the consulship of the Roman emperors, and which had been attacked by Cardinal Henry Noris and others.
- He also edited: D. Antonii Paduani O. Min. sermones hactenus inediti (Avignon, 1685).