CRASSET, JEAN. - Jesuit, b. at Dieppe on 3 Jan. 1618, d. at Paris on 4 Jan. 1692. He was a professor of letters and philosophy, a preacher and a sought-after spiritual director; but above all a writer on ascetical matters, with a limpid and penetrating style.

His principal works, reprinted several times and translated into many languages, still make useful reading today: Méthodes d'oraison avec une nouvelle forme de méditation (2 vols., Paris 1672); the "new form" is the initiation into the life of mystical union through the frequent use of ejaculatory prayers (cf. Bremond, op. cit., VIII, p. 297 ff.); Considérations chrétiennes pour tous les jours de l'année (3 vols., Paris 1863); Entretiens de d'option sur le S. Sacrement de l'autel (ibid. 1678); La douce et sainte mort (ibid. 1681). He also wrote: Histoire de l'Église du Japon (2 vols., ibid. 1689), a work of scant originality, which reproduces, retouching its style, the similar work of Fr. Francesco Solier, Histoire ecclésiastique des îles et royaume du Japon (ibid. 1627), and extends it from 1624 to 1628.

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BIBL.: Sommervogel, II, coll. 1623-46; Hurter, IV, col. 361; H. Bremond, Histoire du sentiment religieux en France, V, Paris 1923, pp. 311-19; VIII, ibid. 1928, pp. 289-309.

Celestino Testore

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