SIRMOND, JACQUES. - Patrologist, b. at Riom (Puy-de-Dôme) on 12 Oct. 1559, d. at Paris on 7 Oct. 1651. Having entered the Society of Jesus in 1576, he taught literature and rhetoric at the Collège de Clermont (1581–90), where he had as a pupil St. Francis de Sales; subsequently (1590–1608) he was secretary to the general Claudio Acquaviva; from 1617 rector of the Collège de Paris; from 1637 to 1643 confessor to Luigi XII.
He distinguished himself in the field of patrology; indeed, he was the editor of St. Fulgentius of Ruspe (Paris 1612), of Theodoret of Cyrus (ibid. 1642), of the Opuscula of Eusebius Pamphilus (ibid. 1643), of the Praedestinatus (ibid. 1643), and of other authors and works. Important were his work De duobus Dionysius, Parisiensi et Areopagita (ibid. 1641), his polemical Historia poemitentiae publicae (ibid. 1651), and the collection Concilia antiqua Galliae (3 vols., ibid. 1629).
SIRMOND, JACQUES
BIBL.: ed. Opera varia, 5 vols., Paris 1616; 2nd ed., Venice 1728; Sommervogel, VII, cols. 1237–61; Hutter, III, cols. 1073–1081; H. Pouqueray, Hist. de la C. d. J. en France, III–V, Paris 1922–25; P. Galtier, s. V. in DThC, XIV, cols. 2186–94. Erik Peterson
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“SIRMOND, JACQUES.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI (1953), p. 460. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/sirmond-jacques.