Croiset, Jean a French ascetic theologian of the Jesuit order, born at Marseilles, was for a long time rector of the House of the Novitiate of Avignon, and governed it with much regularity and mildness. He died at Avignon, January 31, 1738. His principal works are, Vie de Marie-Madeleine de la Trinite (1696): — Vie des Saints pour tons les Jours de l'Annee (Lyons, 1723, 1742): — Parallele des Moeurs de ce Siecle et de la Mlorale de Jean Croiset (ibid. 1735): — Exercices de Piete pour les Dimanches et Fetes (ibid. 1736, 1747,1764, 1804; also under the title, Annee Chretienne, Toulouse, 1812): — Illusions du Cour (Lyons, 1736, 1748): — Heures et Rgglements pour les Pensionnaires Jesuites (ibid. 1739): — Devotion au Sacre Coeur de Jesus Christ (Paris, 1741): — Retraite Spirituelle pour un
Jour de Chaque Mois (Lyons, 1822): — Reflexions Chretiennes (ibid. 1823): — Meditations. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.
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