Pierre Batiffol

Under Giovanni Battista de Rossi in Rome, he studied from 1887 to 1889 the archaeology, research and liturgical antique Christian literature.

Together with his friend Marie-Joseph Lagrange OP, Batiffol founded in 1892 the magazine Revue Biblique for the historical-critical method of exegesis of the Old and New Testament.

He applied strict critical method while studying the Church dogma and history as well as manuscripts of the Holy Scripture.

He lost his chair in the Institute in the aftermath of the publication of Pascendi dominici gregis (8 September 1907) encyclical of Pope Pius X.

[1] That was due particularly to his book on the Eucharist (1905) being put on Index librorum prohibitorum and his affinity to the historical criticism method.