Louis Laneau
Most Reverend Louis Laneau | |
|---|---|
| Vicar Apostolic of Siam | |
Chevalier de Chaumont presents a letter from Louis XIV to King Narai. | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| Diocese | Vicar Apostolic of Siam |
| Predecessor | None |
| Successor | Louis Champion de Cicé |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 25 March 1674 by Pierre Lambert de la Motte |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 May 1637 |
| Died | March 16, 1696 (aged 58) Ayutthaya |
| Nationality | French |
Louis Laneau (31 May 1637 in
Siam (modern Thailand). He was a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. He was initially nominated as the replacement of Msgr Ignace Cotolendi in charge of Nankin
.
Biography
Laneau was born in
in 1674.Monseigneur Laneau worked at propagating the Christian faith and also took care of
Japanese Christian communities in Siam.[3] The Siamese king Narai warmly welcomed these missionaries, providing them with land for a church, a mission house, and a seminary (St Joseph's colony).[4] He wanted to reduce Dutch and Portuguese influence in the area. Laneau had a key role in convincing the Siamese King to send an embassy to France.[5]
During the 1688
Siamese revolution, Laneau and his missionaries were taken hostage by the Siamese, as guarantors for the execution of the retreat agreement negotiated between the French and the Siamese.[6] As the French failed to respect several elements of the agreement, Laneau and his missionaries were imprisoned by the resentful Siamese.[7]
Laneau was not freed from the Siamese jails until April 1691. He died in Ayutthaya on 16 March 1696.[8]
Works
- Rencontre avec un sage bouddhiste (English: "Encounter with a Buddhist sage").
A dialogue between a Christian missionary and a Buddhist sage, with a representation of the Christian doctrine with the words and concepts of Buddhism. The book was initially written in Siamese.
- La Déification des Justes (Latin: "de Deification iustorum", English: "The deification of the Just"). A book written during his captivity after the revolution.
See also
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bangkok
- France-Thailand relations
Notes
- ^ [self-published]
- ^ Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archived 2009-06-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Siam (Thailand)". www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 2020-07-03.
- ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Siam (Thailand)". www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 2020-07-03.
- ^ Smithies, p.8
- ^ Smithies, p.150
- ^ Smithies, p.166-167
- ^ Smithies, p.185
References
- Smithies, Michael, Three military accounts of the 1688 revolution in Siam, Orchid Press, Bangkok 2002, ISBN 974-524-005-2
- Les Missions Etrangères. Trois siecles et demi d'histoire et d'aventure en Asie Editions Perrin, 2008, ISBN 978-2-262-02571-7
