Jansenistic

As a child in the west of Ireland, he was a member of two Jansenistic religious groups.

Six volumes were published before 1686, when they were condemned for their Jansenistic views.

As a professor of moral theology he was noted for his learning, but still more for his Jansenistic tendencies.

About 1670 he removed to Paris, became closely associated with the Port-Royalists, and began to cultivate Jansenistic asceticism.

To Dr. Hersant, his teacher at the latter institution, may be traced his Jansenistic views.

Nicolas Letourneux (30 April 1640 - 28 November 1686) was a French preacher and ascetical writer of Jansenistic tendencies.

His chief Jansenistic work is Le Miroir de la Piété chrétienne (Brussels, 1676).

In March 1801 Joseph Tyan wrote an encyclical to his faithful against the Jansenistic doctrine of Germanos Adam, thus defending the papal primacy.

A strongly Jansenistic book which he wrote, Instructions catholiques sur la dévotion au Sacre-Coeur (Paris, 1777), brought this connection to an end.

But he was soon arrested (Oct., 1735) by the order of the king for his Jansenistic activities, and was confined during nine years either at Vincennes or with the Minims of Argenteuil.

In answer to another Jansenistic work known as the "Epistola Leodiensis de formula Alexandri VII", he published his "Vera defensio authoritatis Ecclesiæ" (Liège, 1707).