Biography:Petrus Sutor

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Petrus Sutor (French: Pierre Cousturier; c. 1475–1480 – 18 June 1537) was a French theologian and Carthusian monk.

Early life and education

Born in Chémeré-le-Roi, he studied arts at the Collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris from about 1490, earned his M.A. in 1495, and taught arts there while studying theology. In 1502 he became a fellow of the College of Sorbonne, where he served as proctor, librarian and prior. He received a licence in theology on 5 February 1510 and doctorate on 16 April 1510.[1]: xi–xii [2]

He was formed in the reform-minded Paris milieu of Jan Standonck and the Collège de Montaigu, and closely associated with the theologian Natalis Beda.[1]: xvii–xix  In January 1511, he gave up the parish of Saint-Loyer in the diocese of Sées, a student benefice he had held since 1509, and entered the Carthusian house of Vauvert in Paris.[1]: xiii 

He was successively prior of four Carthusian houses: Val-Dieu (from 1514), Vauvert (from 1517), Preize near Troyes (c. 1519–1523), and Notre-Dame-du-Parc (by 1531).[1]: xiv–xv [3]: 120 [2][4] He died at Notre-Dame-du-Parc on 18 June 1537.[1]: xv 

Translation critic

Sutor is known for being an outspoken critic of Erasmus,[5][6] Martin Luther,[7] and Protestantism more generally.[8] In his 1525 work De tralatione Bibliae ("On the Translation of the Bible"), he defended the sufficiency of St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate and attacked the new Latin translations of Erasmus and Lefèvre d'Étaples while also condemning the translation of the Bible into vernacular languages.[1]: xxvi–xxx [9][10] He "considered it sufficient that the people could recite the Lord's Prayer, the Decalogue, the Creed and the Commandments of the Church."[11]

Erasmus replied with Apologia adversus debacchationem Petri Sutoris (1525); Sutor answered with the Antapologia (1526), and Erasmus responded with an Appendix (1526).[1]: x, li, lxv  In 1526, Sutor urged the Parlement of Paris, which had just banned vernacular translations, to condemn new Latin translations as well, which he considered the greater danger.[1]: lii 

Works

  • De vita cartusiana libri duo [On the Carthusian Life, in Two Books] (Paris, 1522; Louvain, 1572; Cologne, 1609)
  • De triplici connubio divae Annae disceptatio [A Disputation on the Threefold Marriage of St. Anne] (Paris, 1523)
  • De tralatione Bibliae et novarum reprobatione interpretationum [On the Translation of the Bible and the Rejection of New Interpretations] (Paris, 1525)
  • Apologeticum in novos Anticomaritas, praeclaris beatissimae Virginis Mariae laudibus detrahentes [A Defense against the New Anticomarites, Who Detract from the Praises of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary] (Paris, 1526)
  • Antapologia ... in quandam Erasmi apologiam [Counter-Apology against a Certain Apologia of Erasmus] (Paris, 1526)
  • La manière de faire testament très salutaire [The Manner of Making a Very Beneficial Testament] (Paris, c. 1529)
  • Apologia ... in damnatam Lutheri haeresim de votis monasticis [A Defense against the Condemned Heresy of Luther concerning Monastic Vows] (Paris, 1531)
  • De potestate ecclesiae in occultis [On the Power of the Church in Hidden Matters] (Paris, 1534; 1546)

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Begley, Ronald; Begley, Carol (2025). "Introduction". Controversies. Collected Works of Erasmus. 79. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. ix–lxxxii. doi:10.3138/9781487559267-001. ISBN 978-1-4875-5926-7. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Farge, James K. (2003). "Pierre Cousturier". in Bietenholz, Peter G.. Contemporaries of Erasmus: a biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-8577-1. 
  3. ↑ Farge, James K. (1980). Biographical Register of Paris Doctors of Theology, 1500–1536. Subsidia Mediaevalia. 10. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. pp. 119–121. ISBN 0-88844-359-5. 
  4. ↑ McClintock, John, ed (1880). "Couturier (or Cousturier), Pierre (Lat. Petrus Sutor)". Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. New York: Harper and Brothers. https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/C/couturier-(or-cousturier)-pierre-(lat-petrus-sutor).html. 
  5. ↑ Rabbie, Edwin (2010). "Twenty-ninth Annual Erasmus Birthday Lecture: Long and Useless: The Polemic between Erasmus and Béda". Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 30 (1): 7–21. doi:10.1163/027628510X533846. ISSN 0276-2854. https://brill.com/view/journals/eras/30/1/article-p7_3.xml. 
  6. ↑ Rummel, Erika (1996). "The Importance of Being Doctor: The Quarrel over Competency between Humanists and Theologians in the Renaissance". The Catholic Historical Review 82 (2): 187–203. ISSN 0008-8080. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25024663. 
  7. ↑ Martin, Dennis D. (1995). "Carthusians during the Reformation Era: "Cartusia nunquam deformata, reformari resistens"". The Catholic Historical Review 81 (1): 41–66. ISSN 0008-8080. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25024439. 
  8. ↑ Martin, Dennis D. (2005). "Carthusians". in Hillebrand, Hans J.. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195064933. 
  9. ↑ François, Wim (April 2006). "Petrus Sutor et son plaidoyer contre les traductions de la Bible en langue populaire (1525)". Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 82 (1): 139–163. doi:10.2143/ETL.82.1.2014923. ISSN 0013-9513. 
  10. ↑ Noblesse-Rocher, Annie (2018). "Reflections on Vernacular Translations of the Bible at the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century". One in Christ 52 (1): 110–123. ISSN 0030-252X. 
  11. ↑ Rummel, Erika (2008-06-25). A Companion to Biblical Humanism and Scholasticism in the Age of Erasmus. BRILL. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004145733.i-335.14. ISBN 978-90-04-14573-3. https://brill.com/view/title/12252. 

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