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See also:CORNELIUS See also:JANSEN (1585-1638)
, See also:bishop of See also:Ypres, and See also:father of the religious revival known as See also:Jansenism, was See also:born of humble See also:Catholic parentage at Accoy in the See also:province of See also:Utrecht on the 28th of See also:October 1585
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In 1602 he entered the university of See also:Louvain, then in the throes of a violent conflict between the Jesuit, or scholastic, party and the followers of See also:Michael See also:Baius, who swore by St See also:Augustine
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See also:Jansen ended by attaching himself strongly to the latter party, and presently made a momentous friendship with a like-minded See also:fellow-student, Du Vergier de Hauranne, afterwards See also: Antipathy to the Jesuits brought Jansen no nearer Protestantism; on the contrary, he yearned to See also:beat these by. their own weapons, chiefly by showing them that Catholics could interpret the See also:Bible in a manner quite as mystical and pietistic as theirs . This became the great See also:object of his lectures, when he was appointed regius See also:professor of scriptural See also:interpretation at Louvain in 163o . Still more was it the object of his Augustinus, a bulky See also:treatise on the theology of St Augustine, barely finished at the time of his See also:death . Preparing it had been his See also:chief occupation ever since he went back to Louvain . But Jansen, as he said, did not mean to be a school-See also:pedant all his See also:life; and there were moments when he dreamed See also:political dreams . He looked forward to a time when See also:Belgium should throw off the See also:Spanish yoke and become an See also:independent Catholic See also:republic on the See also:model of See also:Protestant Holland . These ideas became known to his Spanish rulers, and to assuage them he wrote a philippic called the See also:Mars gallicus (1635), a violent attack on See also:French ambitions generally, and on See also:Richelieu's indifference to inter-See also:national Catholic interests in particular . The Mars gallicus did not do much to help Jansen's See also:friends in See also:France, but it more than appeased the wrath of Madrid with Jansen himself; in 1636 he was appointed bishop of Ypres . Within two years he was cut off by a sudden illness on the 6th of May 1638; the Augustinus, the See also:book of his life, was published posthumously in 164o . Full details as to Jansen's career will be found in See also:Reuchlin's Geschichte von See also:Port Royal (See also:Hamburg, 1839), vol. i . See also Jansenius by the Abbes Callawaert and Nols (Louvain, 1893) . |
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