Les Franciscains récollets de la province Saint-François de Lyon aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles

The recollet franciscans from the province of lyon in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

• Auteur / Autrice : Frédéric Meyer
• Direction : Jean-Pierre Gutton
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Histoire
• Date : Soutenance en 1995
• Etablissement(s) : Lyon 2

Résumé

Analyses dans tous leurs aspects (conditions d'installation, organisation, recrutement, apostolat, spiritualite. . ) les recollets, a travers l'exemple de la province de lyon, se revelent un ordre essentiel pour la comprehension du role des reguliers dans l'eglise de la reforme catholique. Leur specificite fut d'allier l'oraison mentale, la pauvrete et un actif apostolat tourne vers la securisation des populations. Ils repondirent aussi aux attentes de la societe jusque vers 1680. Mais ils se heurterent aussi a deux obstacles majeurs: le dynamisme superieur des autres franciscains stricts-observants que sont les capucins et la difficulte d'adapter leur message au xviiie siecle, ce qui provoque alors un desinteret rapide des elites a leur egard.

Analysed in all their aspects (moving conditions, organization, recruiting, mission, spirituality. . . ) the recollets, through the exemple of the province of lyon, prove to be an essential order to understand the important part played by the regulars in the church of the catholic reformation. Their specificity was to combine mental praying, poverty, and active apostolate oriented towards the populations so as to give them a feeling of security. They fitted exactly the expectations of the society until about 1680. Nevertheless, they came up against two major obstacles: -the greater dynamism of the other franciscans: the capucians-the difficulty in adapting their message in eighteenth century, which provoked then a lack of interest for the part of the elites with regard to them.