Jean de la Haye
Biografie1593 - 1661
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Jean de la Haye (1593, Paris – 1661, Paris) was a French Franciscan preacher and biblical scholar. He spent his youth in Spain and entered the Franciscan Order in the province of St Gabriel. He taught philosophy and theology and was an outstanding pulpit orator. Being called to France in 1620, he was assigned important offices both in the order and at the Court of Louis XIII. De la Haye wrote about forty folio volumes, besides several unpublished manuscripts. He edited the works of Bernardine of Siena, and the writings of Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua.