CAMBRY, Jeanne de. - Augustinian mystic, b. at Douai on 15 Nov. 1583, d. at Lille on 19 July 1639. She entered in 1604 the monastery of the Augustinian nuns "Des Prés-Porchins" at Tournai. From 1621 she was superior at the hospital of Menin. She founded at Lille a new Congregation, "Les Filles de la Présentation." In 1625 she withdrew into a récluzor near the church of St. Andrew at Lille, where she died in repute of sanctity.

A mystical soul of profound spirituality, she left various writings in which the influence especially of St. Augustine, of St. Bernard and of Ruysbroeck is found. Her works were printed at Tournai: Petit Exercice pour pouvoir acquérir l'amour de Dieu (1620); Traité de la ruine de l'amour-propre et bâtiment de l'amour divin (1623); Le Flambeau mystique (1631); Traité de la réforme des abus du mariage (1655); Traité de l'excellence de la solitude (1656); Lamentation funèbre de l'âme captive dans un corps mortel (1656).

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BIBL.: P. de Cambry, Abrégé de la vie de Dame J. de C... Antwerp 1659, Tournai 1663 and 1785 (this last edition also gives the analysis of the works); H. Saintrain, Vie admirable de J. de C... Tournai 1899; H. de Boissieu, Une recluse au dix-septième siècle, Paris and Gembloux 1934; P. Droulers, s. v. in DSP, II (1937), col. 61 ff.

Anselmo Musters

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