COUSTURIER (SUTOR), PIERRE. - Carthusian theologian, b. at Chemiré le Roi around 1490, d. at Parc Sainte Marie (Le Mans), 18 June 1537. Having entered religious life, he was prior in several communities and visitor of the French province.
He began his literary activity with the De triplici connubio diuae Annae disceptatio (Paris 1523), followed by the De translatione Bibliae et navorum interpretationum reprobatione (there 1524), which aroused the wrath of Erasmo di Rotterdam, concerning whom C. had used anything but benevolent words. The controversy between the two went beyond the bounds of a mere conflict of ideas. Dating from this period are the Anthropologia adversus quamdam Erasmi Apologiam (there 1526) and the Apologetium adversus novos Antidiconarianitas (there 1528), in which he extols the Madonna against the Protestants. A polemicist by nature, he left Erasmo to attack Lutero and his followers, writing: Apologia adversus Lutheri haeresim de votis monasticis (there 1531); De potestate Ecclesiae in occultis (there 1534). He had also written, in defense of his Order, De vita cartusiana libri duo (there 1522).