BOTTENS, FULGENTIUS. - Franciscan mystical writer, b. at Courtrai (Belgium) on 31 July (or 31 Aug.) 1637, d. at Bruges on 14 Oct. 1717. He was successively guardian, lecturer in theology and in Sacred Scripture, and provincial. He became an esteemed master in ascetical and mystical theology.
S. Dirks reviews about twenty of his works, among which the following stand out: Scintillae seraphicae, sive exercitia ascetica quotidiana ad amoris divini perfectionem aspirantibus utilissima, (Ghent 1673); Vita Una et Trina, qua uni trinoque Domino perfectissime servitur et vivitur (ibid. 1684); Nieuwen druch door den autheur oversien gecorrigeert en op een beter order gestelt (ibid. 1716): this work, like certain others of B., teaches Christian perfection in the light of the Heart of Jesus; Iudicium pacifici Salomonis Christi Domini Nostri super controversiis olim et nostris maxime temporibus agitatis inter sectatores theologiae mysticae ab una parte, eorumque adversarios ab altera... (ibid. n.d. [1714]).
Bibliography5 worksS. Dirks, Histoire littéraire et bibliographique des frères mineurs de l'Observance de s. François en Belgique et dans les Pays-Bas, Antwerp
BIBL.: S. Dirks, Histoire littéraire et bibliographique des frères mineurs de l'Observance de s. François en Belgique et dans les Pays-Bas, Antwerp 1885, pp. 354-60; Hutter, II, coll. 776-777; J. Muyldermans, Onze geestelijke Schrijvers uit vorige eeuwen, in Pastor Bonus, 1928, pp. 48-51; M. Verjans, P. F.-B., O. F. M., in Ons Geestelijke Erf, 8 (1934), pp. 217-18; J. Goyens, s. v. in DSp, I, coll. 1883-84.
Tinivella, Felicissimo. “Bottens, fulgentius.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, p. 1135. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/bottens-fulgentius.
MLA
Tinivella, Felicissimo. “Bottens, fulgentius.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, p. 1135. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/bottens-fulgentius.
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@incollection{ec2_bottens_fulgentius,
author = {Tinivella, Felicissimo},
title = {Bottens, fulgentius},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/bottens-fulgentius}
}
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