Joannes Chrysostomus Teniers
Jean-Jacques Teniers (1653–1709), in religion Joannes Chrysostomus, was a preacher and poet who became abbot of St. Michael's Abbey in Antwerp.
The High Reverend Lord Joannes Chrysostomus Teniers | |
|---|---|
| abbas S. Michaelis Antwerpiensis | |
 Portrait by Jan-Erasmus Quellinus | |
| Church | Roman Catholic |
| Appointed | 19 May 1687 |
| Predecessor | Gerardus Knyff |
| Successor | Joannes Baptiste Vermoelen |
| Other posts | Lord of Beerendrecht and Sandvliet |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 13 March 1677 |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Jean-Jacques Teniers |
| Born | Antwerp, Duchy of Brabant, Spanish Netherlands |
| Died | 30 November 1709 Antwerpen |
| Motto | Tene Quod Bene |
Life
Jean-Jacques Teniers was born in Antwerp, the son of Melchior Teniers and Maria de Backer, and was baptised there on 28 January 1653.
After studying the Liberal Arts at Leuven University Teniers entered St Michael's Abbey, Antwerp, a house of the Premonstratensian Order. He was professed on 17 January 1675, ordained 13 March 1677, and elected abbot 19 May 1687.[1] As abbot he took the motto Tene Quod Bene ("Hold on to what is good", 1 Thessalonians 5, verse 21).
Teniers died in Antwerp on 30 November 1709. His portrait painted by Jan-Erasmus Quellinus is inside Tongerlo Abbey.
Writings
Teniers had some reputation as a preacher and a manuscript of his sermons for feastdays was preserved in the monastery library, as well as two volumes of his notes on the works of St Augustine.
One of Teniers' poems was published in the preliminary matter of Jacobus Moons's Sedelyck Vreughde-Perck (Antwerp, Michiel Knobbaert, 1685).[2]
References
- Paul Bergmans, "Teniers, Jean-Jacques, en religion Jean-Chrysostome", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 24 (Brussels, 1929), 682-683.
- Moons, Jacobus (February 11, 1685). "Sedelyck vreughde-perck oft derden deel van het Zedelyck vermaeck-tonneel verthoonende door sinne-beelden den leersaemen handel van de onredelijcke dieren aen de verkeerde, en beest-aerdighe wereldt". by Michiel Knobbaert – via Google Books.
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