French monk and Catholic apologist. Born in 1525 - died at the castle of Crèvecoeur, 1591. Became c. 1540 canon of the Order of St. Augustin in the Abbey of St. Chéron near Chartres. Studied at the College of Navarre. Doctor in theology, he taught at the College of Boissi and Poissy, to become in 1575 bishop of Evreux. An ardent 'ligueur', he was in 1591 taken prisoner by the forces of Henry IV and sentenced to death. The death penalty was commuted to imprisonment for life, but after only a couple of months de Sainctes died in the castle of Crèvecoeur, where he had been transferred. Cf. Dictionnaire des lettres françaises publié sous la direction de Mgr. G. Grente. Le seizième siècle, 1951, page 626; A. Cioranesco, Bibliographie de la littérature française du seizième siècle, 1959, pages 631-632.
Edited also: Liturgiae sive missae sanctorum patrum, 1560 (no. cp011563).