Boudot was born in
Morteau, in
Franche Comté, in 1571. He graduated doctor of the
Sorbonne in 1604, and was appointed the
episcopal official of
Jean Richardot, bishop of Arras, following him to Cambrai as
archdeacon when Richardot became archbishop there. He was also appointed a preacher in ordinary to
Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, preaching the funeral sermon for Albert's brother
Emperor Rudolph II in the court chapel in Brussels in 1612. In 1619 he was appointed bishop of Saint-Omer in place of
Jacques Blaseus,
O.F.M. Rec., who died the previous year. In 1626, Boudot was transferred to Arras. On 17 March of that year he gave his approval to and graced with indulgences an anonymous Marian devotional text, The Devotion of Bondage.[1] As bishop he sat as a representative of the
First Estate for the
County of Artois in the
Estates General of 1632. He died in Arras on 11 November 1635.[2]
Publications
Summa theologica divi Thomae Aquinatis, recensita (Arras)
Traitté du Sacrement de Pénitence, tant en général qu'en particulier (Paris: Michel Sonnius, 1601)
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Harangue funèbre faicte et prononcée avec funérailles solennelles de l'empereur Rodolphe II, prononcée à Bruxelles (Arras:
Robert Maudhuy, 1612)
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Pythagorica Marci Antonii de Dominis nova Metempsychosis (Antwerp: Gerard Wolsschaten, 1617)
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Formula visitationis per totam suam dioecesim faciendae (Douai, 1627)
Catechismus sive Summa doctrinae christianae pro dioecesi Atrebatensi (Douai, 1628)
Confrairie erigée en l'église et abbaye de Vicoigne de l'ordre de Premonstré (Valenciennes: Jan Vervliet, 1635)
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References
^The Devotion of Bondage. Or An easy Practice of perfectly consecrating our selues to the seruice of the B. Virgin. No location (perhaps somewhere in the Spanish Netherlands), 1634, pp. 5 ff. (reprinted in English Recusant Literature, vol. 134).
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^Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, ed. by M. Michaud, vol. 5 (Paris, 1843), p. 190.