The oratory in the seventeenth-century Low Countries

W.T.M. Frijhoff

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Abstract

In the particular context of the early modern low Countries, subject to political divisions and confessional dissensions, the Catholic Reform movement found its primary expression in missionary work for which the new institutes of secular priests proved to he an appropriate instrument. They fostered a new, Christ-centred spirituality and united the elergy closely around the local hierarchy. The institutional formula finally adopted was that of the Oratory, according to the inspiration of either saint philip Neri or Pierre de Berulle. this article analyses the laborious and complex genesis of this formula in the early modern Low countries, the early links and long lasting relations between the two Oratories and the measure of thire interrelationship and their development towards an increasing antonomy amoung each other as well as with respect to foregion authorities until the Jansenist crisis of 1729. Finaly it shows the diverging evlolution of the Berullian Oratory (including member from the United Provinces and the Philippan Oratory and the rather lale efforts to create a branch in the prince-bishoprie of Liege.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)169-222
Number of pages54
JournalRevue d'histoire ecclésiastique
Volume107
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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