Joannes Chrysostomus Teniers, the religious name of Joannes Jacobus Teniers P.J. Hanicq, ''Catalogus omnium primorum in generali et solemni philosophiæ et artium promotione: ab origine celeberrimæ Universitatis Lovaniensis'', Université catholique de Louvain (1835-1969), 1824, p. 96Jan Jacob Teniers at geni
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and in that role, was also the Lord of Berendrecht and Santvliet.

Life

Joannes Chrysostomus Teniers was born in Antwerp, the son of Melchior Teniers and Maria de Backer. He was baptised there on 28 January 1653 with the birth name Joannes Jacobus Teniers. After studying the

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at Leuven University Teniers entered St Michael's Abbey, Antwerp, a house of the

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. He was professed on 17 January 1675, ordained 13 March 1677, and elected abbot 19 May 1687. As abbot he took the motto ''Tene Quod Bene'' ("Hold on to what is good",

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, verse 21). Teniers died in Antwerp on 30 November 1709. His portrait painted by Jan Erasmus Quellinus is in the collection of

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Writings

Teniers had a reputation as a preacher, and a manuscript of his sermons for feastdays was preserved in the monastery library, as well as two volumes of his notes on the works of

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. One of Teniers' poems was published in the preliminary matter of Jacobus Moons's ''Sedelyck Vreughde-Perck'' (Antwerp, Michiel Knobbaert, 1685).

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