{"id":3588,"date":"2018-09-17T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:30:30","slug":"recent-acquisition-letters-of-a-capuchin-preacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/recent-acquisition-letters-of-a-capuchin-preacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Acquisition: Letters of a Capuchin Preacher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Alan Krieger, Theology and Philosophy Librarian<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Hesburgh Libraries has just acquired a unique set of over eighty bound, handwritten letters, Traicte pour les tres devotes & tres vertueuses dames, les dames religieuses du Calvaire<\/em> (MSE\/EM 2833)<\/a>, from Francois Leclerc du Tremblay, also known as Pere Joseph, to the nuns of Calvaire between 1614 and 1638. Pere Joseph began his career as a soldier, serving at the Siege of Amiens in 1597, but in 1599 he renounced the world and entered the Capuchin priory of Orleans. He became a notable preacher and in 1606 helped Antoinette d’Orleans, a nun of Fontevrault, found the order of the Filles du Calvaire\u2014the community to whom these letters are addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pere Joseph (1577-1638) is also known as a confidant of Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642), and was the original “eminence grise” (“grey eminence”), the French term for a powerful advisor who operates “behind the scenes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Alan Krieger, Theology and Philosophy Librarian Hesburgh Libraries has just acquired a unique set of over eighty bound, handwritten letters, Traicte pour les tres devotes & tres vertueuses dames, les dames religieuses du Calvaire (MSE\/EM 2833), from Francois Leclerc du Tremblay, also known as Pere Joseph, to the nuns of Calvaire between 1614 and … Continue reading Recent Acquisition: Letters of a Capuchin Preacher<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":3607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12646,75056],"tags":[73607,73938,75749],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-theology-church-history","tag-france","tag-manuscripts","tag-recent-acquisitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11908,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/11908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}