Petrus Sutor

Petrus Sutor (French: Pierre Cousturier; c. 1480 – 18 June 1537) was a French theologian and Carthusian monk. Born in Chemere-le-Roy in the latter part of the 15th century, he earned a doctorate of theology at the Sorbonne in 1510 and then taught at the College of St. Barbe from about 1495 to about 1502. He later became a monk, entering the Carthusian order. Between 1514 and 1531, he was the prior of four Carthusian houses: Val-Dieu, Vauvert, Preize, and Notre-Dame-du-Parc. He was a follower of theologian Natalis Beda. In 1519, he was made governor of the Carthusians of Paris.

Sutor is known for being an outspoken critic of Erasmus, Martin Luther, and Protestantism more generally. For example, in his 1525 work De Translatione Bibliae ("On the Translation of the Bible"), he vehemently opposed the translation of the Bible into vernacular languages while upholding the sufficiency of St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate. He "considered it sufficient that the people could recite the Lord's Prayer, the Decalogue, the Creed and the Commandments of the Church."

Works

 * De Vita Carthusiana (Paris, 1522; Louvain, 1572; Cologne, 1609)
 * De Triplici Annce Connubio (Paris, 1523)
 * De Translatione Bibliae (Paris, 1525)
 * Antapologia in quandam Erasmi Apologiam (Paris, 1526)