Eustace of Arras, called Buisine (EUSTACHIO DI ARRAS, DETTO BUISINE)

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

EUSTACHIO di ARRAS, detto BUISINE. — Distinguished Minorite theologian, born probably at Arras ca. 1225, died 7 April 1291. At the University of Paris he was a disciple of St. Bonaventura and Gilberto di Tournai. He is remembered as a highly acclaimed preacher, and his nickname Buisine (Trumpet) refers to his oratorical triumphs. In May 1271 he was sent by St. Luigi di Francia to Viterbo, to the cardinals gathered in conclave for the election of the new pontiff. In 1272–73 he was again in Paris and then in his religious province, especially in the convent of Rouen. Martin IV appointed him bishop of Coutances in 1282.

Among his writings, almost entirely unpublished and preserved in the libraries of Paris, Reims, Basel, the Vatican Library, and the Antoniana of Padua, are remembered the commentaries Super Librum Ethicorum and In libros Sententiarum, the Quaestiones quodlibetales (some were published at Quaracchi in 1883 in the work De humanae cognitionis ratione anecdota quaedam, pp. 183–95, and in France Francisc., 13 [1930], pp. 247–52); various other philosophical-theological treatises and numerous sermons.

Article illustration — (Int. Vatican Library)

EUSTACHIO e consuoi, saints, martyrs — Martyrdom of St. E. and his companions, miniature from the Menologion of Basil II (976–1925) — Vatican Library, cod. Vat. grec. 1613, f. 53.

BIBL.: P. Glorieux, Maitres franciscains de Paris: Fr. Eustache, in France Francisc., 13 [1930], pp. 125–71; A. Landgraf, Demschriften des Fr. Eustachins, in Collect. Francisc., 31 [1931], pp. 70–80; Eubel, I, 213; P. Glorieux, Repertoire des Maîtres en théol. de Paris au XIIIe siècle, II, Parigi 1934, pp. 77–82; V. Doucet, Maîtres Franciscains de Paris, in Archiv. Franc. hist., 27 [1934], p. 17 s.p.

Giovanni Odoardi

EUSTACHIO
di SANTA MARIA.
— Theologian and ascetical writer, in the world Carlo Sebastiani, grandnephew of the celebrated Mons. Sebastiani, born 2 January 1681 in Rome, where he became a Discalced Carmelite in 1703, and died there on 17 March 1754. He held various offices both within his Order (provincial definitor in 1721, prior of the convent of La Scala in 1724) and outside it, as qualificator of the Holy Congregation of the Inquisition, consultor of the Congregation of Rites, and censor of the Theological Academy.

He published: Vita del ven. p. Giovanni della Croce (Roma 1726); Compendio della vita del ven. fr. Francesco del Bambino Gesù (ivi 1718); Vita di suor Anna Maria Teresa di Gesù (ivi 1718); Istoria della vita, virtù, doni e fatti illustri del ven. mons. Fr. Giuseppe di S. Maria de' Sebastiani... (ivi 1719); Screttinum sanctitatis in examine heracitatis donorum (ivi 1729); Screttinum sanctitatis in examine gratiarum (ivi 1731).

BIBL.: Enrico, Coll. Scriptorum O. C. D., I, Savona 1884, p. 194; Ambrogio di S. Teresa, Bibliogr. Mission. O. C. D., Roma 1920, n. 495.

Ambrogio di Santa Teresa