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In 1659, when Michael a S. Augustino was 38 years old, he published his first work in Latin entitled ‘Introductio in terram Carmeli’. In the same year the Dutch edition was published under the title ‘Inleydinghe tot het Landt van Carmelus’. This book is an adaptation of his lessons to Maria Petyt and the novices he taught as novice master.
Maria. In-leydinghe tot het landt van Carmelus,
ende beproevinghe van syne vruchten, ofte in-leydinghe tot een waerachtigh carmelitsch, ofte innigh leven. :
Ende ghenietbaere practyck van het selve in vier deelen verdeylt, / door ... Michael à S. Augvstino ..
Year: 1659
Author: Michael a S. Augustin (1621-1684), religious name of Jan van Ballaer
Annotation: engraved title page
no title engraving. the four treatises each with its own title.
Publisher: Tot Brussel, : by Francois Vivien ..
Printer: Vivien, François Brussel, c. 1628 - c. 1662
Binding: later full-leather binding, 3 raised bands on spine, letter pieces
Number of pages: [12], 535, [20] pp.
Format: 8vo
signs of use and age discolouration.
beautiful leather binding made by master bookbinder, solid binding.
In September 1646, Father Michael was appointed lecturer in philosophy at the Carmelites in Ghent. There he met Maria Petyt (1623-1677), who had lived as a tertiary of Carmel since 1643. He developed a deep spiritual friendship with her. In January 1648 their ways parted for the time being, because Michael received an appointment as professor of philosophy and prefect of students at the Carmel in Antwerp. Before he left Ghent, he asked Maria Petyt to transcribe her notes of their conversations, so that he could use them as a spiritual guide to the friars. He also agreed with her that she would write to him several times a year about her spiritual life. During the Provincial Chapter of the Carmelites in 1649, Michael was elected novice master and subprior in Leuven. Together with Daniel a Virgine Maria, who would found the Carmel of Boxmeer in 1652, he was also instructed to recruit postulants. When the novitiate was moved from Leuven to Mechelen in 1650, Mechelen became the city where Michael spent most of his later life 67435835
