Etienne Binet

Binet, Étienne (1569-1639). French Jesuit priest and author of biographies and spiritual works popularizing the notion of the devout life among lay-folk in the spirit of his friend François de Sales. His Essai des merveilles de nature et des plus nobles artifices (1621) is a moralized encyclopedia initially intended to provide preachers with a basis for comparisons and conceits. It is a treasure-house of curious, even bizarre information, mostly drawn from the Ancients, which went through a dozen editions up to 1660 and was a widely exploited source of poetic imagery. Pascal writes disobligingly of Binet in the 9th Provinciale.

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Etienne Binet, born Dijon, France 1569, died Paris 1639, was a Jesuit author of 45 published works.

Books published (partial list)

• Life of St. Ignatius
• Life of St. Francis Xavier
• Flowers from the Psalms
• Essay on Nature's Wonders
• Purgatory Surveyed
• Mary, God's Masterpiece
• The Rich Man Saved by the Golden Gate of Heaven; Motives and Power of Almsgiving
• Divine Favors Granted to St. Joseph

External links

• Catholic Encyclopedia Article

References

• This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.

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