Denis-Nicolas Le Nourry (18 February 1647 – 24 March 1724) was a French
Benedictine
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scholar of the
Congregation of St-Maur, an ecclesiastical writer.
Life
Le Nourry was born at
Dieppe
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in
Normandy
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. He received his first education from the priests of the
Oratory at his Dieppe; then entered the Benedictine Order at
Jumièges
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Geography
A forestry and farming village situated in a meander of the river Seine, some west of Rouen, at the junction of the D 65 and th ...
, 8 July 1665. After completing his theological studies and being ordained to the priesthood, he was sent to
Rouen, and the
Abbey of Bonnenouvelle. He died at the
Abbey of St-Germain in Paris.
Works
He assisted
Jean Garet Jean Garet (c. 1627 at Le Havre – 24 September 1694 at Jumièges) was a French Benedictine scholar of the Congregation of Saint-Maur.
Lifre
He was professed in 1647 when he was twenty years old, and lived in the Abbey of Saint-Ouen at Rouen.
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in publishing the writings of
Cassiodorus
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(1679). For this he wrote the preface and the life of the author.
In the edition of the works of
St. Ambrose
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he aided
Jean du Chesne and
Julien Bellaise at Rouen, and later
Jacques Du Frische at Paris, where he spent the last forty years of his life. His major work is the "Apparatus ad bibliothecam maximam veterum patrum et antiquorum scriptorum", published at Paris in two volumes (1703 and 1715) as an aid to the study of the Lyon collection of the
Church Fathers. In extensive dissertations he gives the biography of each writer; the occasion, design, scope, and genuineness of every writing; a history of the time in which the author lived; its dogmatical and moral tendency, and its struggles against heathenism or heresies. The work was well received.
In 1710 he edited the "Liber ad Donatum confessorem de mortibus persecutorum", and in a special dissertation tries hard to prove that the book was written by
Lucius Caecilius and not by
Lactantius. Besides these he edited the "Epitome institutionum divinarum" of Lactantius, the "Expositum de die paschae et mensis" of
Hilarianus, and a fragment "De origine generis humani".
References
;Attribution
* The entry cites:
**
Tassin, ''Histoire litt. de la cong. de Saint-Maur'' (Paris, 1770), 436:
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Hugo von Hurter
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, ''Nomenclator'', II (Innsbruck, 1893), 1117: Tubinger Quartalscchrift (1834), 15;
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Kirchenlexikon
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'', s. v.;
**
Nicéron, ''Memoires'', I (Paris, 1727–38), 275-8.
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1647 births
1724 deaths
French Benedictines