COSSART, GABRIEL

COSSART, GABRIEL. - Gesuita, oratore sacro, poeta e canonista. N. a Pontoise il 22 nov. 1615, m. il 18 sett. 1674, nel collegio di Clermont a Parigi, dove era stato professore di retorica.
COSSART, GABRIEL. - Gesuita, oratore sacro, poeta e canonista. N. a Pontoise il 22 nov. 1615, m. il 18 sett. 1674, nel collegio di Clermont a Parigi, dove era stato professore di retorica.
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His oratorical and poetic compositions were republished in Paris in 1675. C. is particularly well known for having helped to complete the collection *Sacrosanta Concilia*, in which Fr. Philippe Labbe had published vols. I-VII and XII-XV. Fr. C. undertook to complete vols. IX-X, which Labbe, taken by death in 1667, had left unfinished, and to compile vol. XI (Paris 1671-72). Also to be remembered is his work: *Parthenii patriarchae Constantinopolitani decretum synodale super calviniani dogmatibus quae in epistola Cyrilli nomine ante annos aliquot edita, falso Graecorum et Orientalium consensu recepta ferebantur* (Paris 1643).

BIBL.: Sommervogel, II, cols. 1495-1501. Alberto Scola