Jean Sarazin

This article is about the archbishop of Cambrai. For the Napoleonic general, see Jean Sarrazin.
Joannes Saracenus

Allegory of the First Estate, engraved by Adriaen Collaert after Maerten de Vos and published by Philip Galle; dedicated to Jean Sarazin
Native name Jean Sarazin
Church Catholic
Archdiocese Archdiocese of Cambrai
See Nôtre Dame Sainte Marie de Cambrai
Elected 6 March 1596
Predecessor Louis de Berlaymont
Successor Guillaume de Berghes
Other posts Abbot of St Vaast (1577–1598)
Orders
Consecration 15 December 1596
by Ottavio Mirto Frangipani
Personal details
Born (1539-07-20)July 20, 1539
Arras, County of Artois, Habsburg Netherlands
Died March 3, 1598(1598-03-03) (aged 58)
Brussels, Duchy of Brabant, Spanish Netherlands
Buried Abbey of St. Vaast
Denomination Benedictine
Parents Antoine Sarazin, craftsman, and Marie de Poix, inn-keeper
Alma mater University of Paris, Leuven University
Motto Pietate et patientia (From piety and patience)
Coat of arms

Jean Sarazin (also Sarrasin or Sarrazin), Latinized Joannes Saracenus (1539–1598) was an abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Vaast, Arras, and the third archbishop of Cambrai.

Life

Sarazin was baptized in Arras on 20 July 1539. He was the son of Antoine Sarazin, a craftsman in the wool trade, and Marie de Poix, an inn-keeper. As a choirboy he came to the attention of the parish priest, who ensured he obtained an education. On 29 May 1556 he entered the Abbey of St Vaast. The abbot, impressed with his abilities, sent him for further studies in Paris and Leuven.

From 1575 Sarazin was the delegate of the abbot of St Vaast in the States of the County of Artois, and in that capacity was involved in negotiations relating to the Pacification of Ghent (1576).[1] In 1577 he became abbot himself. An edition of the works of Prosper of Aquitaine, printed in Douai by Joannes Bogardus in 1577, was dedicated to Abbot Sarazin, as was Antonius Meyer's Ursus, sive de rebus Divi Vedasti Episcopi Atrebatensis (Paris, Charles Roger, 1580), and much later Philippe Bosquier's Le Fouet de l'Académie des Pécheurs (Arras, Guillaume de la Rivière, 1597).

Sarazin was active in bringing about the Union of Arras (1579) which was a first step towards reconciling the Walloon provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands to the government of Philip II of Spain. In 1582 he took part in a delegation from the Southern Netherlands to Philip II. A manuscript account of this mission was written by his successor as abbot of St Vaast, Philippe de Caverel, and was published in 1851 as Relation du voyage et de l'ambassade de Jean Sarrazin en Espagne et en Portugal, edited by Louis de Baecker (Bruges, 1851).

On 6 March 1596 Sarazin was appointed to the archbishopric of Cambrai in succession to Louis de Berlaymont, being consecrated in Brussels by the apostolic nuncio on 15 December 1596.[2]

He died in Brussels on 3 March 1598 and was buried in the Abbey of St Vaast.

Writings

A manuscript volume of Sarazin's sermons (1578–1598) survives in the Bibliothèque Municipale Arras.[3]

References

  1. Herman Vander Linden, "Sarrazin (Jean)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique vol. 21 (Brussels, 1913), 402-409.
  2. Hugues Du Tems, Le clergé de France, vol. 4 (Paris, 1775), p. 35.
  3. Catalogue collectif de France. Accessed 23 November 2015.

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