Crasset, Jean
Crasset, Jean
Ascetical writer, b. at Dieppe, France, 3 January, 1618; d. at Paris, 4 January, 1692. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1638, became professor of humanities and philosophy, was director for twenty-three years of a famous sodality of men connected with the professed house of the Jesuits in Paris, and was also a successful preacher. Crasset is the author of many ascetical works, among which are: “Methode d’oraison”; “Considérationes chrétiennes pour tous les jours de l’année”; “La chrétienne in soli tude”; Dissertation sur les oracles des Sibylles”, which was vigorously attacked; “Entretiens pour la jeunesse”. He also published in 1689 a “Historie de l’eglise du japon” which has been translated into several languages but which is considered inferior to that of Charlevoix. Crasset’s history was scarcely original, for it was drawn in great part from the work which Father Solier had issued in 1627; he merely retouched the style and continued the narrative from 1624 to 1658. The objection is made that the work lacks precision, is heavy, and is crowded with details. The author attributed the origin of the persecution of 1597 to the imprudence of the friars in making their religious ceremonies public. There is a posthumous work of his entitled “La foy victorieuse de l’infidélite et du libertinage”. On 9 September, 1656, the Bishop of Orléans issued an interdict against him for having in one of his sermons charged several ecclesiastics with sustaining the propositions condemned by the Bull of Innocent X, “Cum occasione” (31 May, 1653). The interdict was removed in the following February.
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Feller, Biog. univ. (Paris, 1837); De Backer, Bibliothéque de la c. de J. (1st series, Liége, 1853).
T.J. CAMPBELL
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Crasset, Jean
a French ascetic theologian of the Jesuit order, was born at Dieppe, January 3, 1618. He taught in the colleges of his order, distinguished himself as a preacher, and died at Paris, January 4, 1692. His principal works are, Methode d’Oraison (Paris, 1673): Meditations pour tous les Jours de l’Anne (ibid. 1678; translated into German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and Latin): Le Chretien en Solitude (ibid. 1683; latest ed. 1860): La Douce et Sainte Mort (ibid. 1681): Dissertation sur le Oracles Oaces Sibylles (ibid. 1678, 1684): Vie. de Madame Helyot (ibid. 1683): Histoire de l’Eglise du Japon (ibid. 1689, 1715); this work is largely gathered from that of Solier upon the same subject, published in 1627: La Foi. Victorieuse de l’Infiddlite et du Libertinage (ibid. 1693): Des Congregations de NotreDame Erigees dans les Maisons des Jesuites (ibid. 1694): Abrege de la Vie de Claude Helyot, at the beginning of the OEuvres Spirituelles de M. Helyot (ibid. 1710). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.; Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchen-Lexikon, s.v.