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Faber, Egidius (Gilles de Smedt)

FABER, EGIDIO (GILLES DE SMEDT)

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FABER, Egidius (Gilles de Smedt). - Theologian and statesman, Carmelite, b. in Brussels ca. 1440, d. in 1506. A doctor of Louvain and an illustrious preacher, he enjoyed the favor of Archduke Maximilian, who later became emperor. He renovated the Carmelite College at Louvain, and played a significant part in the founding of the charterhouse in that city.

He wrote a chronicle of the Carmelite Order, of which some fragments survive among the manuscripts of John Bale in the British Museum in London and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. The other works, among which a Historia Brabantiae is mentioned, have been lost.

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BIBL.: G. Bale, De scriptoribus Ord. Carm. in the British Museum, ms. Harlei, 1819, f. 74v.; Cosma de Villiers, Bibliotheca Carmelitana, I, Orléans 1738, pp. 5-6; Biographie nationale... de Belgique, V, pp. 747-49.

Bartolomeo Xiberta

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), coll. 938–939.

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Xiberta, Bartolomeo. “Faber, egidio (gilles de smedt).” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, coll. 938–939. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/faber-egidio-gilles-de-smedt.

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Xiberta, Bartolomeo. “Faber, egidio (gilles de smedt).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 938–939. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/faber-egidio-gilles-de-smedt.

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  author    = {Xiberta, Bartolomeo},
  title     = {Faber, egidio (gilles de smedt)},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {V},
  pages     = {938--939},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/faber-egidio-gilles-de-smedt}
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