MONTEINARD, BRUNO. - Mystic theologian and apologist, b. at Bormes (Provence) on 7 February 1752, d. at Rome on 14 March 1838. Having entered the Minims in 1767, he taught theology at Aix and Avignon, then at Rome in the convent of Trinità del Monte Pincio. When the convent was suppressed, he returned to France and, after the Concordat, became honorary canon of Notre Dame in Paris and devoted himself to preaching.
In 1817 he was called to Rome as superior of the Trinità, with the intention of rebuilding the community. Unfortunately, he was unable to gather among the French Minims, dispersed by the Revolution, a sufficient number; and since the Italian Minims were not admitted there, M. was obliged to leave in 1828 that convent which for more than three centuries had been a cenacle of distinguished religious. From 1823 to 1829 M. was a « colleague », that is, general assistant for France. Meanwhile, for six years he preached the Lenten sermons at S. Luigi dei Francesi; he then withdrew to the convent of his confreres at S. Maria della Luce, in Trastevere.
His principal works: Discours sur la grandeur et la divinité de N. S. J. C., Rome 1818; Le chrétien uni au Sacré Coeur de Jésus, ibid. 1818; Réfutation du principe de la souveraineté du peuple, ibid. 1821; De l'infaillibilité du St-Siège, ibid. 1822; Poème contre le duel, ibid. 1825; Soliloque d'un chrétien zélateur de la ste-Vierge, ibid. 1838.
XIV, Madrid 1862, pp. 357-58; Acta Capitularum generalium Ord. Min., II, Rome 1916, pp. 331, 335, 340, 343, 345, 528; F. Bonnard, Histoire du convent de la Trinité du Mont Pincio, Rome-Paris 1933, pp. 273-78; 286, 293. Gennaro Moretti