Background
Spanneut, Michel was born on November 6, 1919 in Steenvoorde, France.
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Michel Spanneut
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Education
Following studies at the Université Catholique de Lille, where he obtained a doctorate in theology, and ordination to the priesthood in 1944, he completed a doctorat d' état under the direction of Henri-Irénée Marrou devoted to the influence of Stoic philosophy on Church Fathers from Clement of Rome to Clement of Alexandria (ie prior to or competing with various stages of Platonism).
Career
From a Flemish speaking agricultural family in the Nord Departement, after primary school he entered the Petit seminaire at Hazebrook. A teacher at the Universite Catholique de Lille from 1955 to 1989 he became Dean of the Faculty of Letters. He was an honorary canon of Lille.
In 2007 he donated his correspondence (1933-1951) with Maxence Van der Meersch to the Roubaix Mediatheque.
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The permanence of Stoicism in Western thought remained one of his major preoccupations.
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Catholic Church