Anselme, Antoine
Anselme, Antoine
A celebrated French preacher, b. at l’Isle-Jourdain in the Comté d’Armagnac, 13 January, 1652; d. at Saint-Sever, 8 August, 1737. His father was a distinguished surgeon. Anselme studied at Toulouse and became a priest. As a child he was called the “Little Prophet,” because he would repeat with appropriate gestures sermons which he had heard only once. The sobriquet clung to him up to his death. After his ordination he preached in Toulouse, and the Marquis de Montespan was so delighted with his eloquence that he made him instructor to his son, the Marquis d’Antin, and brought him to Paris. Père Anselme’s eloquent sermons there soon procured him such repute as a sacred orator that parishes wishing to secure him had to do so two or three years in advance. In 1681 the French Academy chose him to deliver before it the panegyric on St. Louis. Two years later (1683) he preached at Court. Mme. de Sévigné in one of her letters (8 April, 1689) speaks in warm praise of his intelligence, eloquence, charm, and devotion. He became a member of the Academy of Inscriptions in 1710. He died at the age of eighty-five, in the Abbey of Saint-Sever which Louis XIV had given him in 1699. Father Anselme’s writings are some odes printed in the “Recueil de l’Académie des Jeux Floraux de Toulouse”; “Panegyrics of Saints and Funeral Orations at Paris in 1718” (3 vols. 8vo., with his portrait); “Sermons for Advent, Lent, and Various Occasions” (Paris, 1731, 4 vols. 8vo., and 6 vols. 12mo.); divers dissertations inserted in the “Memoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions” from 1724 to 1729.
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JOHN J. A’BECKET Transcribed by John Fobian In memory of Martha Zingsheim Gimler
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume ICopyright © 1907 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
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Anselme, Antoine
a celebrated French preacher, was born Jan. 13, 1652, at Isle Jourdain, in the district of Armagnac. Son of a renowned surgeon, he studied at Toulouse, and devoted himself to preaching; he first appeared at Gimont with great success, where he received the surname Petit Prophete, which he always retained. He went to preach at Toulouse; the marquis of Montespan, charmed with his eloquence, intrusted to him the education of his son. Anselme went with his pupil to Paris, where he met with the same success. Madame de Sevigne praised him very highly. In 1681 the French Academy chose him to pronounce the panegyric of St. Louis, and he also preached at the court and in all the great parishes of the capital. In 1710 he became a member of the Academy of Inscriptions; and died August 8, 1737, in the Abbey of St. Sener, which Louis XIV had given to him in 1699. He wrote the odes printed in the Recueil de L’Academie des Jeux Floraux de Toulouse: the panegyrics of the saints and the funeral orations at Paris in 1718, with his portrait Sermons pour l’Avent, le Carleme, et sur divers Sujets (Paris, 1731): several dissertations inserted in the enzoires de L’Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres (1724 and 1729). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.