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Cosmas of Santo Stefano

COSMA DI SANTO STEFANO

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Also known as: Cosmas de Villiers; French: Cosma de Villiers, Cosme de Villiers; Italian: Cosma di S. Stefano

COSMAS OF SANTO STEFANO. - Carmelite, better known under the name Cosma de Villiers, b. at St-Denis (near Paris), 8 September 1683, was professor of philosophy and theology in various colleges of his Order, as well as prior and provincial commissary, dean of the Literary Society of Orléans from 1741, superior of the house for the education of women converted from heresy; d. at Orléans in 1758.

C. de Villiers had the great merit of collecting all the notices of the writers, saints and bishops of the Carmelite Order in the work: Bibliotheca Carmelitana, notis criticis et dissertationibus illustrata (Orléans 1752, new ed. by Fr. Wessels, Rome 1927); he also wrote La vie de Michel Jacob, O. Carm. (ibid. 1739).

Bibliography

BIBL.: C. Villiers, Bibliotheca Carmel., I, Rome 1927, pp. 353-54.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), col. 686.

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Ambrogio di S. Teresa. “Cosma di Santo Stefano.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, col. 686. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/cosma-di-santo-stefano.

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Ambrogio di S. Teresa. “Cosma di Santo Stefano.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 686. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/cosma-di-santo-stefano.

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  author    = {Ambrogio di S. Teresa},
  title     = {Cosma di Santo Stefano},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IV},
  pages     = {686},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/cosma-di-santo-stefano}
}

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