Gilles du Monin

Gilles du Monin (1565–1624), also known as Ægidius Monin, was a Belgian Jesuit ecclesiastical historian and liturgical author.^[1]

Life

Monin was born at Beauraing in the Duchy of Luxembourg in 1565. He obtained the degree of Licentiate in Sacred Theology, and in 1592 was appointed a canon of Namur cathedral. In 1603 he resigned his canonry and entered the Society of Jesus. He went on to serve as rector of Jesuit colleges in Namur and Liège.^[2]

Monin helped write the propers for the saints of the diocese of Namur in the Tridentine office issued for the diocese by Jean Dauvin as bishop of Namur in 1619.^[3]

Gilles du Monin died 17 September 1624 while serving as spiritual prefect of a Jesuit house in Lille.

Works

• Sacrarium Leodiense (1618)
• Sacrarium perantiqui comitatus Namurcensis (Liège, Jean Ouwerx, 1619)

References

1. "Gillis du Monin", in A. J. van der Aa, Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden, vol. 12 (Haarlem, 1869), 982-983.
2. Jean-Noël Paquot, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire littéraire des dix-sept provinces, vol. 6 (Leuven, 1765), 261-262
3. Ch. Wilmet, "Fragment d'une histoire ecclésiastique de Namur: Épiscopat des évêques Dauvin et Des Bois", Annales de la Société archéologique de Namur, vol. 8 (1863-1864), 383-424.