PAMELIUS (JACQUES DE JOIGNY DE PAMÈLE). - Flemish priest, born in Bruges on 13 May 1536, died in Mons on 17 September 1587. Master of Arts on 27 March 1553, in 1561, still a subdeacon, he was appointed canon of St Donatian’s in Bruges. Ordained priest on 21 February 1562, in the same year he graduated in theology at Louvain. He remained in Bruges until 1578, holding important ecclesiastical offices. He then went to St-Omer, where he became canon of the cathedral in 1580 and archdeacon the following year. Bishop Monsignor De Six appointed him vicar general, and upon the bishop’s death in 1586 Philip II designated him as his successor, but he died shortly before receiving the bull.
A man of vast learning and ample financial means, he devoted himself to the search for important or precious works and oversaw numerous editions of unpublished texts. In Antwerp in 1565 he printed the *Micrologus de ecclesiasticis observationibus opusculum*, a liturgical treatise attributed to more than one writer but now securely ascribed to Bernold of Constance. This was followed by Cassiodorus’s *Institutiones divinarum et saecularum lectionum* (ibid. 1566); the *Opera* of St Caecilius Cyprianus, bishop of Carthage (ibid. 1568), with the various treatises arranged in chronological order; *Liturgica Latinorum*, in 2 vols. (Cologne 1571), a collection of liturgical texts (including the antiphonary concerning the Mass); *De religionibus diversis non admittendis*; and the *Ordinis Belgii relatio* (Antwerp 1589), important for the religious state of Flanders at the end of the 16th century.