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

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