RIGAUD (Rigaldi), JEAN (Johannes). - Franciscan theologian, born in the diocese of Limoges, died at Avignon before 16 September 1523. He entered the Order when, as he himself relates, many friars who had known St Anthony of Padua were still alive. He was an apostolic penitentiary; on 21 February 1317 he was appointed bishop of Tréguier (Brittany).
He wrote: Vita b. Antonii, one of the principal sources for the life of the Saint (ed. F. M. d'Araules [Delorme], La vie de st Antoine de Padoue, Bordeaux-Brive 1899; Italian trans., Quaracchi 1902); Formula confessionum, dedicated to B. Frédol, bishop of Frascati; Compendium theologiae pauperis, published at Basel in 1501 under the name of St Bonaventure, without the long series of outlines of Sunday and Lenten sermons that follow it in the manuscripts. The work is a compilation based chiefly on the Compendium theologiae veritatis of Ugo di Strasburgo. In his Compendio, R. refers to his Expositio Missae and says that he also wrote Sunday sermons. These two works have not yet been rediscovered.