ABIOLE, ANDRÉ. — Theologian, b. at Condom in 1590, a Jesuit from 1608, d. at Avignon in 1660. He published in Paris in 1649 a treatise entitled *La vie intérieure où il est traité de trois entretiens de l'âme avec Dieu*, namely on meditation, affective prayer, and contemplation according to the teaching of Fr. L. Lallemant (q.v.).
His brother JEAN-JÉRÔME, b. at Condom in 1588, a Jesuit from 1604, d. at Périgueux in 1653, was spiritual director to the holy bishop Alano of Solminihac; he is the author of *Considérations ou méditations... pour tous les jours de l'an* (Poitiers 1637). An anonymous pamphlet, certainly his, *Traité pour conduire les âmes à l'étroite union d'amour avec Dieu* (Paris 1646), was placed on the Index during the controversies of the time.