MARTI'ANAY, JEAN. - Benedictine exegete and patrologist, born at St-Sever-Cap (Gascony) on 30 Dec. 1647, died at St-Germain-des-Près (Paris) on 16 June 1717. Having entered the monastery of Toulouse of the Congregation of St. Maur (1667), he devoted himself particularly to the study of Greek and Hebrew and taught biblical sciences in various monasteries.
His principal work, foreshadowed by the *Divi Hieronymi prodromus* (Paris 1690), was the edition of the works of St. Jerome: *S. Eusebii Hieronymi Stridonensis presbyteri divina bibliotheca antehac inedita* (5 vols., ibid. 1693-1706), soon the object of dissent and harsh criticism. In the same year 1706 he published, also in Paris, *La vie de st. Jérôme prêtre, solitaire et docteur de l'Église*. His annotations on the entire epistolary of St. Jerome are also found separately in PL 22, 1225-72.
His other numerous writings (cf. Ch. de Lama, *Bibliothèque des écrivains de la Congrégation de St-Maur*, Munich 1882, pp. 110-115, nos. 297-320) are for the most part of a polemical and apologetic nature, marked by lively and biting language, and of an hermeneutical character.