RIPAUT, ARCANGELO. — Capuchin writer and preacher, born in Paris in the last decades of the sixteenth century, a gentleman of the court and counsellor to the Parliament, entered the novitiate on 10 May 1601, and died there on 17 February 1635.
As guardian and provincial definer, he wisely opposed the early manifestations among his brethren of the prejudiced movement of the so-called “Illuminati” and refuted it in *La divine naissance, enfance et progres 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...* (ibid. 1632) he denounced the deviations of the “Illuminati,” the Adamites, and false spiritualists. In the 2nd edition (ibid. 1633) he combined the two works. They provoked repressive measures by both religious and civil authorities, with the support of the renowned confrere Fr. Giuseppe da Parigi (v.), and dispersed the movement.