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Saint René Descartes Declaration
René Descartes was born on March 31, 1596, in La Haye, France, and died on February 11, 1650, in Stockholm, Sweden.
He was a Roman Catholic but not a Catholic enthusiast. He was religious and spiritual enough to attract the attention of Cardinal de Bérulle, yet not militant enough to hang around with the same for long. He was accused of being a Rosicrucian, yet he rejected the Rosicrucians' magical and mystical beliefs.
He was a man that glorified reason and advocated religious tolerance and the rights of man. He appreciated leisure and the good life, had many friends who appreciated the same, yet he was disciplined enough to avoid becoming embroiled in the destractions such life provided in the Paris of his time.
He lived a single, secluded life, yet he opposed all vows, even religious ones, that restricted liberty. He was a philosopher, even a philosopher's philosopher, and yet he could not refrain from tears after his daughter Francine died of scarlet fever at the age of five. He could write in Latin, yet preferred to write in French, so all who had good sense, including women, could read his work, and learn to use their reason to think for themselves.
He practiced medicine without charge, tried to increase human longevity, and expressed optimism about the ability of science to improve the human condition. He once stated that good sense is destroyed when one thinks too much of God, yet he was profoundly religious at the same time. He also held the view that it was impertinent to pray to God in order to change things, and insisted that human beings should try to improve themselves instead.
His books were put on the Index of prohibited books (Index librorum prohibitorum) in 1663; the Index of prohibited books was itself indexed only in April 1966. His Cartesian philosophy was condemned at the University of Utrecht; the university lifted the ban on the teaching of Descartes on March 23, 2005, a good 363 years after it had been instituted. Yet his translator and literary executor, a pious Catholic named Claude Clerselier who knew him well, tried to turn him into a saint after his death. The truth is that René Descartes, also known as Renatus Cartesius, was not a Catholic, was not a Rosicrucian, but probably the world's first Cesidian, even before such a concept existed.
The Cesidian Church has already beatified Descartes or Cartesius for his first miracle, the miracle of the discovery of analytic geometry, which he produced during his life, and as a mere example to his Discours de la méthode. This miracle of human thought has produced further miracles, since it provided the basis for the calculus of Newton and Leibniz, and through this Descartes also became one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution.
The Cesidian Church also believes that Descartes or Cartesius performed a second miracle, one which occurred after the the discovery of analytic geometry, after his death, long after the development of the calculus, and the miracle is the discovery of analytic theology. The Cesidian Church is convinced that through this field, and through a rebirth of Cartesian philosophy and thinking, Descartes is not only fundamental to science, but may soon actually lead into superscience.
It is for this reason that the Cesidian Church wishes to canonize Descartes or Cartesius as a saint, and with the name of Saint René Descartes, and make him the Cesidian Church's first saint. If you agree with the Bishop of the Cesidian Church, a fully chartered and legal church, that René Descartes fully deserves to be canonized as the church's first saint, please sign and fill the Web form below in support of Saint René Descartes.
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