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Fealty and Fidelity: The Lazarists of Bourbon France, 1660-1736 - The Lazarists of Bourbon France, 1660-1736 (Paperback)
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Fealty and Fidelity: The Lazarists of Bourbon France, 1660-1736 - The Lazarists of Bourbon France, 1660-1736 (Paperback)
Series: Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
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The career of the French saint Vincent de Paul has attracted the
attention of hundreds of authors since his death in 1660, but the
fate of his legacy - entrusted to the body of priests called the
Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists) - remains vastly neglected.
De Paul spent a lifetime working for the reform of the clergy and
the evangelization of the rural poor. After his death, his ethos
was universally lauded as one of the most important elements in the
regeneration of the French church, but what happened to this ethos
after he died? This book provides a thorough examination of the
major activities of de Paul's immediate followers. It begins by
analysing the unique model of religious life designed by de Paul -
a model created in contradistinction to more worldly clerical
institutes, above all the Society of Jesus. Before he died, de Paul
made very clear that fidelity to this model demanded that his
disciples avoid the corridors of power. However, this book follows
the subsequent departures from this command to demonstrate that the
Congregation became one of the most powerful orders in France. The
book includes a study of the termination of the little-known
Madagascar mission, which was closed in 1671. This mission, replete
with colonial scandal and mismanagement, revealed the terrible
pressures on de Paul's followers in the decade after his demise.
The end of the mission occasioned the first major reassessment of
the Congregation's goals as a missionary institute, and involved
abandoning some of the goals the founder had nourished. The rest of
the book reveals how the Lazarists recovered from the setbacks of
Madagascar, famously becoming parish priests of Louis XIV at
Versailles in 1672. From then on, fealty to Louis XIV gradually
trumped fidelity to de Paul. The book also investigates the darker
side of the Congregation's novel alliance with the monarch, by
examining its treatment of Huguenot prisoners at Marseille later in
the century, and its involvement with the slave trade in the Indian
Ocean. This study is a wide-ranging investigation of the Lazarists'
activities in the French Empire, ultimately concluding that they
eclipsed the Society of Jesus. Finally, it contributes new
information to the literature on Louis XIV's prickly relationship
with religious agents that will surprise historians working in this
area.
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