BASIL OF SOISSONS. - Having entered the Capuchins of the province of Paris on 20 April 1635, he died on 3 March 1698. He was an active member of the Capuchin mission in England at the court of Queen Henrietta of France; on returning to his homeland he turned his theological learning and his anti-Protestant controversialist experience to account in various works, both in defense of the Eucharist and of the true religion, and in exposition of the cornerstones of Christian doctrine, chiefly on the basis of Sacred Scripture. These writings, often reworked, had numerous editions, both complete and partial.

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BIBL.: B. da Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum Ord. Min. Capuccinorum, Venice 1747, p. 38; E. d'Alencon, s. v. in DThC, II, coll. 464-65; A. Testaert, s. v. in DHG, VI, coll. 1157-58; Hutter, IV, coll. 435-36; A. R. B. Bellini, Bassuet historien du protestantisme, Paris 1909, p. 63; M. a. P. B. Bellini, Hist. generalis Ord. Pratum Min. Capuccinorum, part 2, II, Rome 1948, p. 236.

Ilarino da Milano

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Basil of Soissons

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