JOSEPH OF DREUX. - Ascetical writer of the Capuchin province of Paris, b. at Dreux (Normandy) in 1629, entered the Order on 28 July 1647, was a zealous preacher, d. in Paris on 28 Jan. 1671.
As master of novices (from 1665), he wrote La conduite intérieure pour toutes les actions de la journée (Paris 1667[?]), several times published and translated (Italian version Venice 1768). His course of spiritual exercises Solitude séraphique (Paris 1671; Italian version Piacenza 1706) is still appreciated. Only from the last century were published, in reworked form, the Courtes méditations ascétiques pour tous les jours de l'année (Paris 1887 and 1924; these too translated into various languages; Italian version Gesù modello e maestro, Turin 1920).
Bibliography3 worksUbald d'Alençon, Le p. 7. de D., in Etudes francisc., 38 (1926), pp. 312-20; id., La spiritualité franciscaine, ibid., 39 (1927), pp. 464-65
BIBL.: Ubald d'Alençon, Le p. 7. de D., in Etudes francisc., 38 (1926), pp. 312-20; id., La spiritualité franciscaine, ibid., 39 (1927), pp. 464-65; Melchior e Pobladura, Historia generalis Ord. Min. Capuccinorum, parte 2°, I, Roma 1948, pp. 171-97, 233, 253.
Ilarino da Milano. “Giuseppe da Dreux.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 807. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/giuseppe-da-dreux.
MLA
Ilarino da Milano. “Giuseppe da Dreux.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 807. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/giuseppe-da-dreux.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec6_giuseppe_da_dreux,
author = {Ilarino da Milano},
title = {Giuseppe da Dreux},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {807},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/giuseppe-da-dreux}
}
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