Abelli, Louis
Bishop of Rodez (South France), was born at Vez, 1604. He was made bishop in 1664, but resigned in three years, to become a monk in the convent of St. Lazare, at Paris. He was a violent opposer of the Jansenists, and author of a system of Dogmatic Theology, entitled Medulla Theologica (republished in Mayence, 1839), and also of Vie de St. Vincent de Paul, 4to. He was an ardent advocate of the worship of the Virgin Mary, and wrote, in its defense, La Tradition de l’eglise touchont le culte de la Vierge, 1652, 8vo. He died in his convent in 1691.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Abelli, Louis (2)
a French theologian, was born in 1603 in the Vexin. He was first rector of St. Josse at Paris, then bishop of Rhodes. In 1664 he resigned his bishopric, and went to Paris to live in retirement. He was a strong adversary of Port-Royal. He died at Paris, Oct. 4, 1691. He wrote, Medulla Theologica (1650): Tradition de ‘Eglise touchant la Devotion des Chretiens’ envers la Sainte Vierge (1652-72): La Vie du Veneable Seriteur de Dieu, Vincent de Paul (1664): La Couronne de l’Annee Chretime, ou Meditations sum’ les plus Importantes Vieites de l’Evangile (translated by him into Latin in 1732): Considerations sur l’Eternite . La Vie de Sainte Josse de Bretagne (Abbeille): Defense de la Hierarchie de Eglise, et de l’Autorite du Pape (Paris, 1659): Taite des Heresies (1661)., See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.