PIROT, LOUIS - New Testament exegete,
b. at Châteauroux on 10 July 1881, d. at Lille on
5 Dec. 1939. He was professor of Sacred Scripture at the Grand
Seminary of Bourges, then at the Faculty of Theology of
Lille (1920).
A military chaplain during the war of 1914-18, he was
awarded the croix de guerre and the Legion of Honour (1915).
Canon of Bourges (1924) and of Lille (1937), he was also
a consultor of the Biblical Commission (8 Apr. 1935). While
teaching Sacred Scripture, he exercised the functions of chaplain of the Carmel of Bourges (1918-20), of Lille (1920-22),
and of spiritual director and lecturer at the Collège des
Dames bernardines d'Esquerones d'Olligniese of Tournai
(1922-39).
Fr. Pirot is known for the supplement to the Dictionnaire de la Bible, begun in 1922, to which he personally contributed 40 articles, and for La Ste Bible, in
the course of publication since 1935: he himself provided
the commentary on Mark. He was an assiduous contributor to
l'Ami du clergé (1911-39), through articles and biblical chronicles. Other writings: L'oeuvre exégétique de Théodore de
Mopsueste (Rome 1913); Les Actes des Apôtres et la Commission biblique (Paris 1919); St Jean (ibid. 1923); Iunilius
Africanus (in DThC, VIII [1925], coll. 1971-76). He composed the first two chapters of the Histoire du christianisme
of Ch. Poulet (Paris 1932, fasc. 1), contributed a study on
La foi de la première génération chrétienne en Jésus, in G.
Bardy-A. Tricot, Le Christ, ibid. 1932, pp. 373-92, and the chapter on Inspiration in A. Robert-A. Tricot, Initiation
biblique, ibid. 1939, pp. 9-27.