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Lorenzo da Parigi

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LORENZO da PARIGI - Frontispiece of Le Palais d'amour divin, Paris 1613-14 - Copy preserved in Fribourg, Switzerland, in the convent of the Capuchins.
LORENZO da PARIGI - Frontispiece of Le Palais d'amour divin, Paris 1613-14 - Copy preserved in Fribourg, Switzerland, in the convent of the Capuchins.

LORENZO DA PARIGI. - Capuchin writer and preacher. He entered the Order on 7 Oct. 1581. He was guardian, definitor, custos general, and lecturer in philosophy and Hebrew (1611); he died at Meudon on 12 Apr. 1631.

St. Francis de Sales in the preface to the Traité de l'amour de Dieu and Cardinal G. Bona (v.) in Via compendii, ch. II (De amore Dei) praise him as a master of the science and art of the love of God for his Le palais d'amour divin de Jésus et de l'âme chrétienne, où toute personne tant religieuse que séculière peut apprendre à aimer Dieu en vérité (Paris 1602, 1603, 1613, 1614); of other volumes planned on the same subject only Les tapisseries du divin amour ou la Passion de N. S. Jésus Christ (ibid. 1631) appeared, in which an engraving in the first book represents, perhaps for the first time in iconography, Jesus Christ showing the sinful soul his heart through his opened side.

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BIBL.: Edoardo d'Alençon, Un précurseur de la dévotion au Sacré-Coeur. Le p. L. de P., in Annales franciscaines, 17 (1890-1892), pp. 433-42, 481-86; Ubaldo d'Alençon, La spiritualité franciscaine, in Etudes francisc., 39 (1927), pp. 458-59; Melchiorre da Pobladura, Historia generalis Ord. Min. Capucinarum, II, 1, Rome 1948, pp. 203, 206, 252.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII (1951), col. 1551.

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Ilarino da Milano. “Lorenzo da Parigi.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 1551. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/lorenzo-da-parigi.

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Ilarino da Milano. “Lorenzo da Parigi.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1551. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/lorenzo-da-parigi.

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  author    = {Ilarino da Milano},
  title     = {Lorenzo da Parigi},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VII},
  pages     = {1551},
  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/lorenzo-da-parigi}
}

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