Alain, De La Roche
Alain de la Roche
or Alain de la Roche (c.1428-75) Dominican theologian, born probably Brittany; died Zwolle, Netherlands. By his preaching he restored the devotion of the Rosary throughout northern France and the Low Countries, and he established many Rosary confraternities. His writings were published posthumously.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Alain, De La Roche
a French monk of the order of Preaching Friars, was born in Brittany in 1415. He assumed the Dominican habit at Dinan, and finished his studies in a monastery of the same order in Paris. In that city and in other places he taught theology; and died on the Festival of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, about 1462. Andrew Coppenstein gives his works as follows: A Treatise on the Psalter or Rosary of Jesus Christ and Mary (Fribourg, 1619; Cologne, 1624): The Confraternity of the Psalter of Our Lady (Paris, 16mo): The Mirror of the Sinful Soul, etc. See Echard, Script. Ord. Proed.