Louis Richeome


Louis Richeome was a French Jesuit theologian and controversialist. He also wrote under the pseudonyms "Ludovicus de Beaumanoir", "Felix de la Grace", and "Franciscus Montanus".

Life

Richeome was born in Digne in 1544. He studied at the Collège de Clermont under Juan Maldonado and in 1565 joined the Society of Jesus. In 1580 he was appointed principal of the student residence at the university of Pont-à-Mousson. He was instrumental in the Jesuit residence in Bordeaux being allowed to reopen its college in 1603. In 1605 he was appointed Father Provincial of the Lyon Province, and from 1608 to 1616 was in Rome as assistant to Superior General Claudio Acquaviva. Richeome died in Bordeaux on 15 September 1625.

Publications

  • L'adieu de l'âme devote laissant le corps
  • as François des Montaignes, La verité defendue pour la religion catholique. En la cause des Jesuites, contre le plaidoyé d'Antoine Arnaud.
  • *as Franciscus Montanus, Apologia pro Societate Jesu in Gallia contra Antonii Arnaldi advocati parisiensis philippicam.
  • Trois discours pour la religion catholique.
  • Tableaux sacrez des figures mystiques du tresauguste sacrifice et sacrement de l'Eucharistie.
  • *Holy Pictures of the Mysticall Figures of the Most Holy Sacrifice and Sacrament of the Eucharist, tr. C.A..
  • as Felix de la Grace, La chasse du renard Pasquin.
  • Le Pélerin de Lorète.
  • *Peregrinus Lauretanus, tr. Johann Haickstein.
  • *The Pilgrime of Loreto, tr. Edward Walpole
  • Expostulatio apologetica ad Henricum IV. pro Societate Jesu.
  • Miracula quae ad invocationem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae apud Tungros, Camberones et Servios in Hannonia ac Dominam gaudiorum in Picardia vulgo notre Dame de Liesse dictam effulsere ab anno 1081 ad annum usque 1605.
  • L'idolatrie huguenote
  • *Idololatria Huguenotica, tr. Marcellinus Bompar.
  • Valedictio Animae Devotae.
  • La peinture spirituelle.
  • Justa anniversaria Henrico Magno.
  • Examen catégorique du libelle Anticoton.
  • as Ludovicus de Beaumanoir, Expostulatoria defensio ad senatum
  • De Ratione migrandi ad meliorem vitam.
  • L' Immortalité de l'Ame.
  • Œuvres du R. Pere Louis Richeome, .