Joannes Chrysostomus Teniers

Joannes Chrysostomus Teniers, the religious name of Joannes Jacobus Teniers (also known as Jan Jacob or Jean-Jacques Teniers;1653–1709) was a Flemish preacher and poet. He served as the abbot of the St. Michael's Abbey in Antwerp and in that role, was also the Lord of Berendrecht and Santvliet.

Life Joannes Chrysostomus Teniers was born in Antwerp, the son of Melchior Teniers and Maria de Backer. He was baptised there on 28 January 1653 with the birth name Joannes Jacobus Teniers. As abbot he took the motto Tene Quod Bene ("Hold on to what is good", 1 Thessalonians 5, verse 21).

Teniers died in Antwerp on 30 November 1709. His portrait painted by Jan Erasmus Quellinus is in the collection of Tongerlo Abbey.

Writings Teniers had a reputation as a preacher, and a manuscript of his sermons for feastdays was preserved in the monastery library, as well as two volumes of his notes on the works of St Augustine.

One of Teniers' poems was published in the preliminary matter of Jacobus Moons's Sedelyck Vreughde-Perck (Antwerp, Michiel Knobbaert, 1685).