RIPAUT, ARCANGELO. — Capuchin writer and preacher, born in Paris in the last decades of the sixteenth century; a court gentleman and councillor at the Parlement, he entered the novitiate on 1 May 1601 and died there on 17 February 1635.
As guardian and provincial definitor, he wisely opposed the first manifestations among his fellow religious of the pre-Quietist movement of the so-called “illuminati,” and composed its refutation in La divine naissance, enfance et progrès admirable de l'âme au saint amour de Jésus et de Marie (Paris 1631), describing the orthodox nature of mystical union; in Abomination des abominations des fausses dévotions de ce tems... (there 1632), he denounced the deviations of the “illuminati,” the Adamites, and the false spirituals. In the 2nd ed. (there 1633), he brought the two works together. They provoked repressive measures on the part of both the religious and civil authorities, with the support of the famous fellow religious Fr. Giuseppe da Parigi (v.), and brought about the dispersal of the movement.