Madame Jeanne‐Marie Bouvier de la Motte‐Guyon

Japanese: ギュイヨン夫人 - ギュイヨンふじん（英語表記）Madame Jeanne‐Marie Bouvier de la Motte‐Guyon

1648‐1717
A French Catholic mystic. During her childhood, she was sickly and mentally unhappy, but she began to earnestly seek God and long for a devout religious life. She preached (1) the purification of the soul through prayer, (2) the importance of seeing oneself as oneself, which is nothing before God, completely abandoning self-love, and obtaining a new life that is truly free within God, and (3) that in order to do so, one must entrust everything to God. At one time she gained ardent followers at the court of Louis XIV, but the purity of the faith she preached was so radical that she was soon persecuted by the Catholic Church and driven out of Paris.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1648‐1717
フランスのカトリック系の神秘家。病弱で精神的に不幸な少女時代を過ごすうち，真剣に神を求め敬虔な信心生活にあこがれるようになる。彼女は(1)祈りを通じ魂を浄化すること，(2)神の前では無に等しい自己のありのままの姿を見つめ，自己愛を完全に捨て去り，神の内なる真に自由な新しい生命を得ることがたいせつなこと，(3)そのためにはすべてを神にゆだねなければならないことを説いた。一時期ルイ14世の宮廷で熱烈な信奉者を得るが，彼女の説く信仰の純粋さがあまりにラディカルだったので，まもなくカトリック教会から迫害を受け，パリを追われる。

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