Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. I, 1948 Saints & hagiography

Albert of Saint Egidius (Gilles Leroy)

ALBERTO DI SANT'EGIDIO (GILLES LEROY)

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Also known as: Albert of St Egidius, Albert of St. Egidius; Italian: Alberto di S. Egidio; Latin: Albertus a Sancto Aegidio

ALBERT OF SAINT EGIDIUS (Gilles Leroy). - French Carmelite, b. at Dol (Brittany); he was among the first professed of the new Carmelite reform of Touraine, at Rennes, on 2 Aug. 1609. He taught theology at Nantes and received his degree in Paris. He died in the convent of Auray, on 14 Nov. 1670, praised by his contemporaries for his erudition. He published: Oraison funèbre du roi... Louis XIII (Paris 1643); Paulus praedicans resurrectionem mortuorum, seu explanatio theologica cap. XV Epist. I. s. Pauli ad Cor. (Rennes 1654).

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BIBL.: Cosma di s. Stefano Villiers, Bibl. Carm., I, Orléans 1752, coll. 16-17; Hurter, IV, col. 153; Dict. de Biogr. Française, I, Paris 1936, col. 1220.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 694.

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Ambrogio di S. Teresa. “Alberto di Sant'Egidio (Gilles Leroy).” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 694. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/alberto-di-sant-egidio-gilles-leroy.

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Ambrogio di S. Teresa. “Alberto di Sant'Egidio (Gilles Leroy).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 694. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/alberto-di-sant-egidio-gilles-leroy.

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  author    = {Ambrogio di S. Teresa},
  title     = {Alberto di Sant'Egidio (Gilles Leroy)},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {694},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/alberto-di-sant-egidio-gilles-leroy}
}

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