Piatus of Mons (Secular name, JEAN-JOSEPH LOISEAUX), b. 5 Aug.,
1815; d. in the Monastery of Ste. Claire, Bruges, 21 April 1904.
As a student of priesthood he distinguished himself in moral
theology and canon law. After his ordination as a secular priest
of the Diocese of Torunai, Belgium, in 1838, he continued his
study of canon law at Louvain. In 1843 he was appointed a vicar
of the cathedral of Tournai, but the following year he went to
Rome, and there spent two years in the Belgian college, studying
canon law and working for the congregations. He returned to
Belgium in 1846 and the next year was appointed to the chair of
canon law and ecclesiastical history at Louvain. In 1847 in
cooperation with Abbé Felise he founded the quarterly magazine,
"Mélanges théologiques", and later the "Revue théologique" and
the "Nouvelle revue théologique". The first was concerned
chiefly with canon law; the second with liturgy. He continued to
edit the "Nouvelle revue théologique" until 1895. when it passed
into the hands o