DURAND de VILLEGAIGNON, NICOLAS. — Theologian, born in 1510, died in 1571; having converted from Calvinism, he became a fervent defender of the Eucharistic dogma.
Ad articulos Calvinianae de Eucharistia traditionis in Francia antartica (America meridionali) evulgatae responsiones (Paris 1560); Adversus Calvin, Melanchthonis atque idigenus sectariorum dogma de Eucharistia opuscula tria (Cologne 1563); De consecratione, mystico sacrificio et duplici Christi oblatione adversus Vannium (Paris 1569); De iudaici paschatis implemento adversus calvinologos (ibid. 1569); De poculo sanguinis Christi adversus Bezam (ibid. 1569). These works abound in patristic documents.
BIBL.: Hurter, III, cols. 10–11; P. Polman, L'élément historique dans la controverse religieuse du XVIe siècle, Gembloux 1932, pp. 423, 425, 448. Antonio Piolanti