MARAN, PRUDENCE. - Benedictine patrologist and theologian of the Congregation of St. Maur, b. at Sézanne (Marne) on 14 Oct. 1683, d. at Paris on 2 Apr. 1762. Transferred from Paris to Orbais (1734) and to St-Martin-de-Pontoise (1735) for his opposition to the bull Unigenitus, in 1737 he returned to Paris, where he spent the last 25 years of his life.

M.'s erudition and critical sense are amply proved by the learned prefaces and notes to the patristic editions he edited: S. Cyrilli Hieros. opera (Paris 1720: PG 33), in collaboration with A. A. Toutte. He prefixed a preface and a critical life to the edition of S. Cypriani ep. Carth. et mart. opera (ibid. 1726: PL 4), edited by E. Baluze. He completed the edition of S. Basilii Caesar. opera (ibid. 1730) made by J. Garnier. He published Justini opera necnon Tatiani, Athenogorae, s. Theophylli et Hermiae (ibid. 1742). Other works: Divinitas D. N. I. Chr. (ibid. 1746), against the Socinians (also published in French); La doctrine de l'Écriture et des Pères sur les guérisons miraculeuses (ibid. 1754) against the abbé de Prades; Les grandeurs de Jésus Christ (ibid. 1756; Italian trans., Rome 1756).

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BIBL.: R. P. Tassin, Historie littéraire de la Congrégation de St Maur, Paris 1770, pp. 741-49; C. de Lama, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la Congrégation de St Maur, Monaco-Paris 1882, nos. 543-50; Hurter, IV, coll. 838, 1149, 1452-55; J. Baudot, s. v. in DThC, IX, II, coll. 1933-36; J. Zellinger, s. v. in LThK, VI, col. 862.

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