title: Jean Baptiste Guesnay
text: # Jean Baptiste Guesnay
  
  Jean-Baptiste Guesnay (1585 - November 4, 1658) was a French Jesuit and author.
  
  ## Biography
  
  He was born in Aix-en-Provence. He died in Avignon.
  
  He opposed the views expressed by Jean de Launoy, who had dismissed the Provençal legends of Mary Magdalene as pious nonsense.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Magdalena Massiliensis advena, seu de adventu Magdalenae in Gallias, & Massiliam appulsu. Disquisitio theologica historica (1643)
  * Le triomphe de la Madeleine en la créance et vénération de ses reliques en Provence (1647). Published under the pseudonym of Denis de la Sainte-Baume
  * Provinciae Massiliensis ac reliquae Phocensis Annales, sive Massilia gentilis et christiana; read online
  