Sirmon, Jacques

Jacques Sirmon ( fr. Jacques Sirmond ; October 12 or 22, 1559 , Rome - October 7, 1651 , Paris ) - French theologian, Jesuit, church historian and writer.

Jacques Sirmon
Jacques Sirmond
Jacques Sirmon
Date of Birth	October 22, 1559 ( 1559-10-22 )
Place of Birth	Riom
Date of death	October 7, 1651 ( 1651-10-07 ) (91 years old)
A place of death	Paris
A country
Scientific field	theology

Jacques was born in Riom, studied at the Jesuit College in . Jacques completed the novitiate in Verdun and in Pont-à-Mousson , in 1576 he was ordained a priest. Since 1581, Sirmon was a teacher of rhetoric in Paris , among the students of Jacques Sirmon at this time - Francis Salsky . In 1590, Sirmon went to Rome, where he served as secretary to the General of the Society of Jesus, Claudio Aquaviva, until 1608.

In Rome, Sirmon meets and communicates with Roberto Bellarmin and Caesar Baronius and spends time studying the texts of the ancient Church Fathers that he found in the Vatican library. Returning to France, he becomes the confessor of Louis XIII from 1639 to 1643.

As a historian, Jacques Sirmon prepared and published about forty medieval Latin and Byzantine authors and commentators, including:

• Magn Felix Ennodius (1611)
• Flodward (1611)
• Sidonius Apollinaris (1614)
• The Life of Leo IX , set forth by Archdeacon Wibert (1615)
• Marcellin Komit (1619)
• Editions (1619)
• Anastasius Librarian (1620)
• Charles II the Bald ( Latin Karoli Calvi et successorum aliquot Franciae regum capitula , 1623)
• Eusebius of Caesarea (1643)
• Avit Vienne (1643)
• Ginkmar (1645)
• Theodulf (1646)
• Raban Moor (1647)
• Rufin of Aquileia (1650)
• (1650)

Of the works of Sirmon, the most important is lat. “Concilia antiqua Galliae” (“Cathedrals of Ancient Gaul”), in three volumes (1629); as well as lat. The Historia Praedestinatiana (History of Predestination) in this work explains the fallacy of the doctrine of predestination , published in 1648. His lat. Opera varia (Various Acts) was published in five volumes in 1696 and reprinted in Venice in 1728; this work contains, in particular, the study of Sirmon, in which he proves that Dionysius the Areopagite and Dionysius of Paris are two separate saints, as well as the “L'Hodoeporicon” (“Journey”) about the journey of Sirmon from Paris to Rome in 1590. He is credited with the “Elogio di cardinale Baronio” (“Praise to Cardinal Barony”), which appeared in 1607.

Two nephews of Jacques Sirmond - both writers: Jean Sirmon ( Fr. Jean Sirmond ; 1589-1649) and Antoine Sirmon ( Fr. Antoine Sirmond ; 1591-1643)