LA HAYE, JEAN de (SAPIN). - Franciscan theologian, b. 20 March 1593 and d. 15 Oct. 1661 in Paris. He professed the Franciscan Rule in Andalusia, then taught theology in France and was preacher to Queen Anne and King Louis XIII. Procurator General of the Order and of the Holy Land in France, he was an indefatigable compiler of vast works of biblical exegesis, not always free of errors and with little critical sense.
His Commentarius litteralis in Genesim (3 vols., Lyon 1638) and Commentarius litteralis in Exodum (Paris 1639) are especially useful to preachers; likewise the Commentarius in Apocalypsim (2 vols., ibid. 1644-47). The Biblia Magna (5 vols., ibid. 1643), which contains the biblical commentaries of Gagneus, Estius, Sa, Menochius and Tirinus, preludes the Biblia Maxima (19 vols., ibid. 1660), which contains, besides the aforementioned commentaries, the Postils of Nicholas of Lyra and the Prolegomena of L. H., as well as very many versions of the biblical texts from the Oriental languages, all in Latin. The same commentaries were published with the notes of J. B. Bossuet in the Venetian Bible (28 vols., 1745-57).
Furthermore L. H. published: Opusculum de casibus reservatis Ioannis a Trinitate (Paris 1617); Opera s. Bernardini Senensis (ibid. 1635-36); Opuscula s. Francisci (ibid. 1641); Alexandri Halensis commentarius in Apocalypsim (ibid. 1647), which however is not by Alexander of Hales but by Alexander of Alexandria (cf. L. Veuthey, Alexandre d'Alexandrie, in Etudes franciscaines, 43 [1931], p. 158); S. Antonii Patavini opera (Lyon 1653).
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