THE FRENCH SCHOOL of
 CATHOLIC SPIRITUALITY
 

 Cardinal Berulle
                    1580               1600                1620                1640                  1660                1680              1700                1720                 1740

 

  ║PIUS V║ GREG XIII ║ CLEM VIII ║   PAUL V   ║ URBAN VIII ║                                                              ║ CLEMENT XI ║

                                                                      18 30 YEARS WAR 48                                                ║ 1696  ―  St. Alphonsus LIGUORI  ―  1787                      

 

    ║ 1567 ― St. FRANCIS de SALES ― 1622  ║       ║St.Sulpice '41║                        ║      1675   ―     Jean Pierre  de CAUSSADE     ―   1751      ║

 

   ║1666 - Barbe de ACARIE (Sr.Marie) - 1618║ “French School”  ║ 1651  ―  St. John de La SALLE  ― 1719 ║

 

                                            ║         1601     ―        St. John  EUDES       ―       1680         ║ 

 

   ║1575    ―   PIERRE de BÉRULLE   ―   1629 ║              ║ '47- St. M.M.ALACOQUE- '90  ║ ║  1694  ―  St. PAUL of the CROSS ―  1775                

 

                                           ║1608 ― Jean Jacques OLIER ― 1657 ║              ║1673- St. de MONTFORT -1716║

 

                  ║    1581     ―        St. VINCENT de PAUL       ―     1660    ║                                                 

 

                                                                        ║    1632    ―     Jean  MABILLON O.S.B.     ―    1707    ║║ 1712  ―Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU―1778

 

1542 -  St. ROBERT BELLARMINE - 1621 ║  ║ 1626   ―  Jean-Armand de RANCE O.C.S.O. ―   1700  ║             ║ 1713- St. Junípero SERRA, Alcantarine - 1784            

'59                     Nantes '98          HUGUENOT  WARS       Revocation of Edict of Nantes1685

 

'59 CATH.de'Medici '89║HENRY IV '10║'10 –LOUIS XIII–1643║1638 [King]            ––         LOUIS XIV      ––              1715     ║

  

                                       ║  1602     ―   Cardinal MAZARIN  ―   1661 ║        GALLICAN        GALLICANISM   

 

                             ║ 1585   ―   Cardinal RICHELIEU   ―  1642 ║                         ARTICLES 1682

 

                                                                                 ║   1627     ―     Miguel de MOLINOS     ―    1696)   ║  

 

                                                                                 ║   1627         ―       Jacques BOSSUET       ―         1704    ║

                                                                                                         QUIETISM     COELESTIS-1687-PASTOR

                                                                                                           ║1648―Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte GUYON―1717║

                                                                                                                ║  1651    ―    François FÉNELON    ―   1715  ║

 

                                                                             ║1623 - Blaise PASCAL -1662 ║

 

                          ║  1585  ―  Cornelis JANSEN ― 1638  ║            JANSENISM 

 

                                        false Monita 1612 against Jesuits

 

                                                                      AUGUSTINUS - 1640  CUM OCCASIONE                                                 UNIGENITUS

                        ║ 1581―  Jean Duvergier ST.-CYRAN ―1643 ║        1653                                                                   1713

 

                                            ║        1597      ―――         Henri  ARNAULD          ―――      1692     ║                  

 

                                      ║1591― ANGELIQUE [Arnauld] of Port-Royal  ―1661 ║                                                                  Chapter of Utrecht

                                                                                         ║   1634      ―――       Pasquier  QUESNEL     ―――      1719   ║   1723 (Old Cath.)

                                                                                 ║   1627     ―     Miguel de MOLINOS     ―    1696)   ║  

 

                                                                                 ║   1627         ―       Jacques BOSSUET       ―         1704    ║

                                                                                                         QUIETISM     COELESTIS-1687-PASTOR

                                                                                                           ║1648―Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte GUYON―1717║

                                                                                                                ║  1651    ―    François FÉNELON    ―   1715  ║

'59                     Nantes '98          HUGUENOT  WARS       Revocation of Edict of Nantes1685

 

'59 CATH.de'Medici '89║HENRY IV '10║'10 –LOUIS XIII–1643║1638 [King]            ––         LOUIS XIV      ––              1715     ║

  

                                       ║  1602     ―   Cardinal MAZARIN  ―   1661 ║        GALLICAN        GALLICANISM   

 

                             ║ 1585   ―   Cardinal RICHELIEU   ―  1642 ║                         ARTICLES 1682

 

 
                    1580               1600                1620                1640                  1660                1680              1700                1720                 1740

THE term “French School” has been used to describe a series of related spiritual and theological movements in seventeenth- century France that sought to implement the decrees of the Council of Trent concerning the reform of the clergy and education of the laity.  Cum Adolescentium Aetas, the tridentine decree on seminaries, had been promulgated in 1563: however, in the spirit of Gallicanism, the French government and hierarchy refused to permit the establishment of seminaries until 1641.  The founders of the French School paved the way for seminaries by initially gathering in informal study groups that met in the salons of patrons such as Mme Barbe Acarie, who was influential in bringing the reformed. Carmelites nuns to Paris

A more formal step forward was the Paris Oratory founded by Cardinal Bérulle in 1613.  St. Francis de Sales visited the Oratory, St. Vincent de Paul, founder of the Vincentians/ Lazarists, spent time there; and its later influential members members included Bérulle’s successor as superior, Fr. Charles de Condren, as well as Jacques Olier, founder of the Sulpicians, and St. John Eudes, founder of the Eudists. Each of these individuals made related but unique contributions to this spiritual movement.

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