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LOUIS DE BLUIS (1506-1566)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 75 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS DE BLUIS (1506-1566)  , Flemish mystical writer, generally known under the name of BLosIus, was born in
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October 1506 at the chateau of Donstienne, near Liege, of an illustrious
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family to which several crowned heads were allied . He was educated at the court of the
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Netherlands with the future emperor Charles V. of Germany, who remained to the last his staunch friend . At the age of fourteen he received the
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Benedictine habit in the monastery of Liessies in Hainaut, of which he became abbot in 1530 . Charles V. pressed in vain upon him the archbishopric of
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Cambrai, but Blosius studiously exerted himself in the reform of his monastery and in the composition of devotional
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works . He died at his monastery on the 7th of
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January 1566 . Blosius's works, which were written in Latin, have been translated into almost every
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European language, and have appealed not only to
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Roman Catholics, but to many
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English laymen of note, such as W . E . Gladstone and Lord Coleridge . The best
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editions of his collected works are the first edition by J . Frojus (Louvain, 1568), and the Cologne reprints (1572, 1587) . His best-known works are: the Institutio Spiritualis (Eng. trans., A
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Book of Spiritual Instruction,
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London, 1900); Consolatio Pusillanimium (Eng. trans., Comfort for the Faint-Hearted, London, 1903); Sacellum Animae Fidelis (Eng. trans., The Sanctuary of the Faithful Soul, London, 1905); all these three works were translated and edited by
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Father Bertrand Wilberforce, O.P., and have been reprinted several times; and especially
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Speculum Monachorum (French trans. by Felicite de Lamennais, Paris, 1809; Eng. trans., Paris, 1676; re-edited by Lord Coleridge, London, 1871, 1872, and inserted in " Paternoster " series, 1901) . See Georges de
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Blois, Louis de Blois, un Benedictin au X VI a" e siecle (Paris, 1875), Eng. trans. by Lady Lovat (London, 1878, &c.) .

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