COSMA di SANTO STEFANO. – Carmelite, better known by the name of Cosma de Villiers, born in St-Denis (near Paris) on 8 September 1683, he was professor of philosophy and theology in various colleges of his Order, as well as prior and provincial commissioner; from 1741 he was dean of the Literary Society of Orléans, and superior of the house for the education of women converted from heresy; he died in Orléans in 1758.
C. de Villiers had the great merit of collecting all the information about the writers, saints, and bishops of the Carmelite Order in the work: Bibliotheca Carmelitana, notti critici et dissertationibus illustrata (Orléans 1752, new edition by Fr. Wessels, Rome 1927); he also wrote La vie de Michel Jacob, O. Carm. (there 1739).
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