Claude ChantelouClaude Chantelou (1617, Vion

Vion

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, France

France

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—November 28, 1664, Paris

Paris

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) was a Benedictine

Benedictine

Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy. The most notable of these is Monte Cassino, the first monastery founded by Benedict...

 Patristic scholar

Church Fathers

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 and writer.

Having spent some time in the Order of Fontevrault

Fontevraud Abbey

Fontevraud Abbey or Fontevrault Abbey is a religious building hosting a cultural centre since 1975, the Centre Culturel de l'Ouest, in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near Chinon, in Anjou, France. It was founded by the itinerant reforming preacher Robert of Arbrissel, who had just created a...

, he left it to become a Benedictine in the Congregation of Saint-Maur

Maurists

The Congregation of St. Maur, often known as the Maurists, were a congregation of French Benedictines, established in 1621, and known for their high level of scholarship...

, in which he made his profession, February 7, 1640, at Toulouse

Toulouse

Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...

. When the General Chapter of 1651 ordained that two religious be entrusted with the preparation of a history of the congregation, Chantelou was one of the appointees, and from that time until his death resided at Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

The Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, just beyond the outskirts of early medieval Paris, was the burial place of Merovingian kings of Neustria...

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Works

He is the author of the following works: Bibliotheca Patrum ascetica (Paris, 1661-64), a collection of extracts from the writings of the Church Fathers

Church Fathers

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 regarding the spiritual life; S. Benedicti abbatis Clarevallensis Paræneticon (Paris, 1662), an edition of sermons of St. Bernard

Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order.After the death of his mother, Bernard sought admission into the Cistercian order. Three years later, he was sent to found a new abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the Val...

 preceded by a life of the saint written by Alain, Bishop of Auxerre

Alain, bishop of Auxerre

Alain was a Cistercian abbot of La Rivour, and bishop of Auxerre from 1152 to 1167. He was a close associate of Bernard of Clairvaux, who was instrumental in getting him appointed bishop, under commission from Pope Eugene III, after a dispute in the diocese...

 (a life of St. Malachy

Saint Malachy

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, Archbishop of Armagh, concludes the work); S. Basilii Cæsareæ Cappadociæ archiepiscopi regularum fusius disputatarum liber (Paris, 1664), answers of St. Basil

Basil

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 to questions proposed by his monks respecting the monastic life; Carte géographique de la France bénédictine, published by Le Chevalier in 1726. Marin de Caraurais edited and completed Chantelou's manuscript, History of the Abbey of Montmajour, near Arles

Arles

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 (Marseilles, 1878). Nobilleau published his Analyses du cartulaire tourangeau de Marmoutier (Tours, 1879). Chantelou was also a collaborator in the publication of important Benedictine historical collections, e.g. the Spicilegium of Luc d'Achery

Luc d'Achéry

Luc d'Achery was a learned French Benedictine of the Congregation of St. Maur, a specialist in the study and publication of medieval manuscripts.-Life:...

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This article incorporates text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia

Catholic Encyclopedia

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 article "Claude Chantelou" by N.A. Weber, a publication now in the public domain

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