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Jean Pierre de Caussade

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Roman Catholic theologian

FranceLived 1675 to 1751 · aged 76
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Jean-Pierre de Caussade was a French Jesuit priest, spiritual director, and ascetical writer associated with traditions of interior prayer and abandonment to divine providence in eighteenth-century French Catholicism.

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Jean-Pierre de Caussade was a French Jesuit priest, spiritual director, and ascetical writer associated with traditions of interior prayer and abandonment to divine providence in eighteenth-century French Catholicism. Although little known during his lifetime, he became widely influential through the posthumous publication of works attributed to him, especially Abandonment to Divine Providence, a classic of Christian spirituality centred on surrender to the will of God in the ordinary circumstances of daily life.

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France
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deceased
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Lived 1675 to 1751 · aged 76
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