Thoughts and Reflections of Armand-Jean de Rancé, Abbot of la Trappe
Thoughts and Reflections of Armand-Jean de Rancé, Abbot of la Trappe

Author: Armand-Jean de Rancé

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2022-08-15

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0879071346

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Armand-Jean de Rancé (1626–1700), the reforming abbot of la Trappe, was a prolific writer in a verbose age. Until he was in his thirties, he enjoyed the life of a young man about town, but then, after experiencing a dramatic conversion, he left the world forever for the silence and austerity of la Trappe. To read all that he wrote when he governed the abbey would take a great deal of time, but in 1703, three years after Rancé’s death, Jacques Marsollier, archdeacon of Uzèz and one of Rancé’s biographers, published a slender volume of selected Pensées et Reflexions, “Thoughts and Reflections,” by Rancé, which presents the essential ideas of the abbot in a condensed form. There are 259 Pensées, ranging in length from a couple of lines to about thirty. They are best dipped into, not read consecutively, for some will have more impact than others depending on the reader, the time, and the place.

Everyday Life at La Trappe under Armand-Jean de Rancé
Everyday Life at La Trappe under Armand-Jean de Rancé

Author: David N. Bell

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2018-09-06

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0879071745

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This is an annotated translation of the classic Description de l’abbaye de La Trappe, the most important eye-witness account of life at the abbey of La Trappe under Armand-Jean de Rancé. The work includes a map showing the physical layout of the abbey and detailed discussions of the monks’ daily life and practice. It was written by André Félibien des Avaux for Jeanne de Schomberg, duchess of Liancourt, in 1671, with a new and enlarged edition being published in 1689. That is the edition translated here, with copious notes to help the reader appreciate Félibien’s account.

Memoir of Father Vincent de Paul; religious of La Trappe
Memoir of Father Vincent de Paul; religious of La Trappe

Author: Father Vincent de Paul

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Memoir of Father Vincent de Paul; religious of La Trappe" by Father Vincent de Paul. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Memoir of Fr. Vincent de Paul
Memoir of Fr. Vincent de Paul

Author: Alexander Pope

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2009-04-16

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1427028729

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Memoir of Father Vincent De Paul; Religious of La Trappe is the translation by Alexander Pope of the memoir of an early Canadian Trappist monk. It is a fascinating story, not only of one's man's journey in Christ but of the natives with whom he lived and served.

Understanding Rancé
Understanding Rancé

Author: David N. Bell

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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Both during his lifetime and afterwards Armand Jean le Bouthiellier, the abbe de Rance, was a controversial figure. Alive, he was extravagantly admired by many, yet had, as one recent biographer observed, 'an unhappy genius for incurring hostility unnecessarily'. Dead, he continued to evoke extreme reactions-he was either loved or loathed. One biographer nicknamed him 'the thundering abbot'; others depicted him in hagiographical panegyrics. The present volume sets Rance against the colorful and extravagant world of seventeenth-century France and corrects both masterly and entertaining caricatures by exploring the world which surrounded and formed this ever fascinating monk: the privileged circles of the ancient regime in which Rance moved from his birth in 1626; and the austere monastic environment he created at la Trappe. 'This is not so much a book about Rance as around Rance, Dr Bell writes. 'I do not expect that it will persuade people who do not like Rance to like him; it may, however, serve to explain why he said and did what he said and did in the way that he said and did.'