, in Latin Sanctesius, was born in 1525, at Perche. He entered as
, in Latin Sanctesius, was
born in 1525, at Perche. He entered as a regular canon
in the abbey de St. Cheron, near Chartres; at the age of
fifteen was admitted doctor of the Sorbonne, 1555, and resided afterwards in the house of cardinal de Lorraine, who
employed him at the conference of Poissy, in 1561, and
persuaded king Charles IX. to send him to the council of
Trent, with eleven other doctors. In 1566 De Sainctes,
with Simon Vigor, afterwards archbishop of Narbonne, disputed against two protestant ministers, at the house of the
duke de Nevers, and published the records of this conference two years after, and had also a controversy with
Sadeel, as we have recently noticed in his article. He
became so celebrated for his writings, sermons, and zeal
against the protestants, as to be promoted to the bishopric
of Evreux in 1575. The following year he attended the
states of Blois, and in 1581, the council of Rouen; but
having afterwards joined the most violent among the
Leaguers, was seized at Louviers by Henry IVth’s party,
who found a writing among his papers, in which he pretended to justify the assassination of Henry III. and declared that the present king deserved the same treatment.
Being carried as a prisoner to Caen, he would there have
received the punishment due to his attempt, had not cardinal de Bourbon, and some other prelates, interceded that
his punishment should be perpetual imprisonment. He
was accordingly confined in the castle de Crev^cceur, in
the diocese of Lisieux, where he died in 1591, De Sainctes
left many learned works, the largest and most scarce among
which is a “Treatise on the Eucharist,
” in Latin, folio, an
edition of St. James’s, St. Basil’s, and St. Chrysostom’s
“Liturgies,
” Antwerp,