[1] John Soreth was born near Caen in Normandy, France in 1394 and entered the Carmelite house there.

Among his other activities was the encouragement and establishment of the Carmelite nuns, especially following the papal bull "Cum Nulla" of Nicholas V issued in 1452.

In particular, he supported the foundations in Northern Europe made by Blessed Frances d'Amboise, whom he himself clothed in the Carmelite habit.

In addition - as a result of the same papal bull - he was instrumental in the development of the Lay Carmelite Third Order.

[citation needed] He died at Angers on 25 July 1471 and the Carmelite, Baptist Spagnoli, the famous humanist, wrote an elegy for him.