LEANDRO da DIGIONE. - Capuchin preacher and writer, from the province of Lyon, b. at Dijon ca. 1598, d. there in 1667. He was guardian at Tournon (1627-30), at Lyon (1633, 1659-60), provincial definitor (1644-64).
He was spiritual adviser to the Lyonese mystic J. Cretenet, founder of the missionary priests of St. Joseph. A theologian of humanistic tendency, according to the school of St. Francis de Sales, in the discourses Les vertés de l'Évangile ou l'idée de l'amour divin exprimée dans l'intelligence cachée du Cantique des Cantiques (2 vols., Paris 1661-62), he popularizes the problem of the soul's love of God by treating various theological, ascetic and moral subjects; in the Discursus praedicabies in aureus sententiis Doctoris Gentium (ibid. 1665), he treats in particular of the love of God, of perfection and of the union with Christ through Grace.
Bibliography5 worksHurter, IV, col. 152; Henri de Grèzes, Le Sacré-Cœur de Jésus, Lyon-Paris 1890, pp. 240-57; Luc de Lyon, L'amour, Étude de théologie francis
BIBL.: Hurter, IV, col. 152; Henri de Grèzes, Le Sacré-Cœur de Jésus, Lyon-Paris 1890, pp. 240-57; Luc de Lyon, L'amour, Étude de théologie franciscaine d'après les écrits spirituels du p. Léandre de Dijon, St-Etienne 1948; Julien-Eymard d'Angers, Le désir naturel du surnaturel: Sébastien de Senlis, Yves de Paris, Léandre de Dijon, in Études francisc., new series, 1 (1950), pp. 211-24; id., Sénique et le stoïcisse chez les Capucins français du XVIIe siècle: Zacharie de Lisieux et Léandre de Dijon, ibid., pp. 337-53.
Ilarino da Milano. “Leandro da Digione.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 1000. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/leandro-da-digione.
MLA
Ilarino da Milano. “Leandro da Digione.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1000. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/leandro-da-digione.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec7_leandro_da_digione,
author = {Ilarino da Milano},
title = {Leandro da Digione},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VII},
pages = {1000},
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/leandro-da-digione}
}
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