Guillaume Gazet
Guillaume Gazet, Latinized Gulielmus Gazaeus was a poet and ecclesiastical historian in the Spanish Netherlands. His brother, Antoine Gazet, was a physician and translator.Life
Gazet was born in Arras, then part of the Habsburg Netherlands, in 1554. Around 1580 he was appointed parish priest of the church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Arras, and later became a canon of the collegiate church of Saint-Pierre in Aire-sur-la-Lys while retaining his position as parish priest.
He died in Arras on 25 August 1612 and was buried in his parish church there.Works
As author
- Magdalis. Comoedia sacra
- Chanson nouvelle pour l'heureux succez de l'armée catholicque ensemble, de la prinse des ville et chasteau de Calais
- L'ordre et suite des evesques et archevesques de Cambray
- L'ordre des evesques d'Arras depuis la separation de l'evesché de Cambray
- L'ordre et suyte des evesques de Cambray et d'Arras
- Briève histoire de la sacrée manne et de la sainte chandelle miraculeusement données de Dieu et religieusement conservées en la ville et cité d'Arras
- Le cabinet des Dames: contenant l'ornement spirituel de la femme.
- Le consolateur des ames scrupvleuses.
- La Bibliotheque Sacree du Pays-Bas.
- L'Histoire ecclésiastique des Pays-Bas.
As editor
- Simeon Metaphrastes, Histoire de la vie, mort, passion et miracles des saints
- Juan de Polanco, Directoire des confesseurs
- Various authors, Thesaurus precum et litaniarum.
