BAIOLÉ, ANDRÉ. - Theologian, b. at Condom in 1590, a Jesuit from 1608, d. at Avignon in 1660, published in Paris in 1649 a treatise on La vie intérieure où il est traité de trois entretiens de l'âme avec Dieu, that is, on meditation, affective prayer and contemplation according to the teaching of Fr. L. Lallemant (v).

His brother JEAN-JÉRÔME, b. at Condom in 1588, a Jesuit from 1604, d. at Périgueux in 1653, was the director of the holy bishop Alan of Solminihac; he is the author of Considérations ou méditations... pour tous les jours de l'an (Poitiers 1637). An anonymous pamphlet, but certainly his, Traité pour conduire les âmes à l'étroite union d'amour avec Dieu (Paris 1646), was placed on the Index at the time of the Quietist controversies.

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BIBL.: A. Valensin, Une étude synthétique de la vie intérieure au début du XVIIᵉ siècle, in Revue d'ascétique et de mystique, 2 (1921), pp. 161-77; Sommervogel, I, col. 785 ff.; A. Valensin and M. Olphe-Gaillard, s. v. in DSp, I, coll. 1201-1203.

Edmondo Lamalle

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