GUILLORÉ, FRANÇOIS. - Jesuit, spiritual master, born 25 Dec. 1615 at Croisic (Nantes), died in Paris on 29 June 1684. Having asked the Father General to assign him to the rural missions, he saw his desire fulfilled, and from 1656 he was engaged in spiritual ministries and preaching.
In 1673, transferred to the Paris novitiate, he spent the rest of his days there hearing confessions, providing spiritual direction within and outside the community, and working in charitable confraternities and associations (such as that of the magistrates in Paris), in works of prevention and assistance to prisoners, similar to the future societies of S. Vincenzo.
G. is numbered among the most eminent spiritual authors of the seventeenth century; his works, in numerous editions, translations, and reprints, had already reached 60,000 copies during his lifetime. The best known are: Maximes spirituelles pour la conduite des âmes (Paris 1670); Les secrets de la vie spirituelle, qui en découvrent les illusions (ibid. 1673; ed. Watrigant, ibid. 1922); Les progrès de la vie spirituelle selon les différents états de l'âme (ibid. 1675); Conférences spirituelles pour bien mourir à soy-meme et pour bien aimer Jésus (ibid. 1683); Retraite pour les dames (ibid. 1684); Les oeuvres spirituelles du p. F. G. (ibid. 1684).