John Jones (Benedictine)
John Jones | |
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Born | 1575 |
Died | 17 December 1636 |
Nationality | Welsh |
Occupation | Benedictine monk |
John Jones, also known as Leander à Sancto Martino, (1575 – 17 December 1636) was a Welsh Benedictine monk.
Biography
Jones was born in 1575. He belonged to a family settled at Llan Wrinach,
Although ordered to the English mission, Jones acted successively as novice-master at the abbey of St. Remigiua at Rhelms, and at St. Gregory's at Douay. He was also for nearly twenty-five years professor of theology, and taught Hebrew in the college of Marchiennes, or in that of St. Vedast, in the
Jones frequently visited England, and enjoyed special protection through the agency of his friends at court. When early in 1634
Jones died in London on 17 December (O.S.) 1636, and was buried in the chapel of the Capuchin friars in Somerset House. Wood describes him as 'the ornament of the English Benedictines in his time,' adding that 'he was a person of extraordinary eloquence generally knowing in all arts and sciences, beloved of all that knew him and his worth, and hated by none but by the puritans and jesuits (Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, ii. 604).
The following works were written or edited by him :
- ' Biblia Sacra cum glossa ordinaria, ordinaria, primum quidem a Strabo Fuldensi . . . nunc vero novis Patrum cum Græcorum tum Latinorum explicationibus locupletata, postilla Nicolai Lyrani . . . nec non additionibus Pauli Burgensis episcopi et M. Thoringi replicis, opera et studio theologor. Duacensium diligentissime emendatis,’ 6 vols., Douay, Antwerp, 1617, fol. In this he was assisted by John Gallemart.
- 'Historia et Harmonia Conciliorum, Frankfort,' 1618, fol.
- 'R. P. D. Gregorii Sayri Angli, monachi Benedictini ex Sacra Congregatione Casinensi, alias S. Justinæ de Padua, Opera Theologica,' edited by Jones 4 vols, Douay,l 620, fol. [see Sayer, Robert, alias Gregory]
- 'Rosetum Exercitiorum Spiritualium, et Sacrarum Meditationum, auctore Mauburno Bruxellense, . . . Edidit et castigavit L. de S. Martino, 'Douay, 1620, fol.
- 'Otium theologicum tripartitum; sive amœnissimæ disputationes de Deo, intelligentiis animabus separatis, earumque variis receptaculis, trium magnorum authorum, Bartholomæi Sybillæ, Joannis Trithemii, Alphonsi Tostati,' 3 parts, Douay, 1621 8vo.
- 'Sacra Ars Memoriæ, ad Scripturas Divinas in promptu habendas, memoriterque ediscendas, accommodata,' Douay, 1623, 8vo at the end of which is
- 'Conciliatio locorum specietenus pugnantium totius S. Scripturæ; auctore Seraphino Cumirano; R. P. Leander a S. Martino explicavit et illustravit,'Douay, 1623, 8vo.
- 'Bibliotheca seu speculum mundi Vincentii Bellovacensis; edidit R. P. Leander,' 4 vols. [Douay?], 1624, fol.
- The third tractate in the ‘Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia,’ published under the name of Clement Reyner, D.D., Douay, 1626, fol.; the materials were collected with Jones's assistance by Father David Baker [q.v.] ; the whole was translated into elegant Latin by Jones, and Reyner saw it through the press.
- 'A Threefold Mirror of Man's Vanity and Miserie: the first written by ... John Trithemius ... Abbot of Spanhem,’ Douay, 1633, 12mo. Father Gilbert Dolan says this was probably edited by Jones (Downside Review, vi. 134).
- 'Arnobii disputationum adversus Gentes libri septem; cui accesserunt paratitla … quibus elucidatur authoris obscuri methodus, qua in disputando utitur, et cautiones aliquot de erroribus ejus. Authore L. de S Martino,' Douay, 1634, 8vo.
- ‘The Spirit of St. Bennet's Rule, or a rule of Benedictine perfection,' manuscript in the Lille archives. Canon Francis Cuthbert Doyle published 'The Rule of St. Benedict. From the old English edition of 1638.' From the Latin by Leander de Sancto Martino and John Fursdon [q.v.] , London, 1875, 8vo.
- ‘Opera Ludovici Blosii,’ edited by Jones.
- Letters to Urban VIII, Cardinal Barberini, Secretary Windebank, and others, concerning the affairs of the English Catholics. Printed in Lord Clarendon's ‘State Papers,’ 3 vols., 1767, or summarised in the ‘Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers,’ Oxford, 1872, vol. i. ed. Ogle and Bliss.
It has been erroneously stated that Jones was one of the editors of the works of Rabanus.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cooper, Thompson_Cooper (1892). "Jones, John (1575-1636)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.