Jean de Launoy
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Jean de Launoy (1603–1678) was a French historian. Known as "le denicheur des saints", he was a critical historiographer. He was on the sceptical side over the supposed papal bull
Sacratissimo uti culmine (see Sabbatine Privilege
). In papal politics he was a Gallican, in theology a Jansenist.
Papal bull
A Papal bull is a particular type of letters patent or charter issued by a Pope of the Catholic Church. It is named after the bulla that was appended to the end in order to authenticate it....
Sacratissimo uti culmine (see Sabbatine Privilege
Sabbatine Privilege
The Sabbatine Privilege derived its name from the apocryphal Papal Bull Sacratissimo uti culmine of Pope John XXII, dated 3 March, 1322, according to which had the pope declared that the Mother of God appeared to him, and most urgently recommended to him the Carmelite Order and its confratres and...
). In papal politics he was a Gallican, in theology a Jansenist.
Works
- Dissertationes tres: Quarum una Gregorii Turonensis de septem episcoporum adventu in Galliam: Altera Sulpitii Severi de primis Galliae martyribus locus defenditur; et in utraque diversarum Galliae ecclesiarum origines tractantur: Tertia, quid de primi Cenomannorum antistitis epocha sentiendum (Paris, 1651)
- Explicata Ecclesie traditio circa canonem: Omnis utriusque (1672)
- Præscriptiones de Conceptu B. Mariæ Virginis (1677)
- Opera Omnia (Geneva, 1731)