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Jacqueline-Marie-Angélique Arnauld, S.O.Cist. or Arnault, called La Mère Angélique (8 September 1591, in Paris – 6 August 1661, in Port-Royal-des-Champs ), was Abbess of the Abbey of Port-Royal, which became a center of Jansenism under her abbacy.
Jacqueline-Marie-Angélique Arnauld (born 1591—died August 6, 1661, Port-Royal, Paris) was a monastic reformer who was abbess of the important Jansenist centre of Port-Royal de Paris. She was one of six sisters of the prominent Jansenist theologian Antoine Arnauld (the Great Arnauld).
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Angélique Arnauld (1591—1661) The reforming abbess of the convent of Port-Royal, Mère Angélique Arnauld developed an Augustinian philosophy deeply influenced by the Jansenist movement. Her philosophy of God follows the via negativa in its stress on God’s incomprehensibility.
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(1591—1661) Quick Reference. (1591–1661), ‘Mère Angélique’. A sister of Antoine Arnauld, she became Abbess of Port-Royal in 1602. She shared without protest in the relaxed discipline of the house until she was converted by a sermon in 1608. She promptly introduced drastic reforms.
Jacqueline-Marie-Angélique Arnauld, aka Marie-Angélique Arnault, La Mère Angélique. *September 8, 1591 (Paris, France) †August 6, 1661 (Port-Royal-des-Champs, France) Primary Sources.
Jacqueline-Marie-Angélique Arnauld. by Gina Luria Walker. Jacqueline-Marie-Angélique Arnauld, called La Mère Angélique 1591 – 1661, one of twenty children and five sisters, was given to the worldly convent of Port-Royal des Champs near Paris against her wishes, by her parents because they couldn’t afford her dowry.
The old abbess of Port Royal had just died, and a new nomination was to be sent to Rome, no longer of Jacqueline Arnauld, as coadjutrix, but of Angélique Arnauld, as abbess, and her age was...
