Agustín Dávila Padilla

Agustín Dávila Padilla

(Agustín) Dávila Padilla (b. Mexico City, 1562; d. 1604) was a Mexican Dominican, a writer and Bishop of Santo Domingo.

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Life

At the age of sixteen he graduated at the University of Mexico as master of arts and soon after entered the Dominican Order. He held the chairs of philosophy and theology at Puebla and Mexico.

He was successively definitor and procurator of the Mexican province of his order and was sent to Rome and Madrid as its representative. In 1601 he was made Bishop of Santo Domingo, where he died.

Works

Dávila Padilla was not prolific. He wrote the important Historia de la Fundacion y Discurso de la Provincia de Santiago de México (Madrid, 1596; Brussels, 1625). Beristain mentions a third edition of 1634. While not free from mistakes, it was a major chronicle of the Dominican Order and its missions in America up to the end of the sixteenth century.

References

  • Nicolás Antonio, Bibliotheca hispana nova (2d ed., Madrid, 1733-1738);
  • León y Pinelo, Epitome de la Biblioteca oriental y occidental (2d ed., Madrid, 1737);
  • Eguiara, Biblioteca mexicana (Mexico, 1755);
  • Beristain de Souza, Biblioteca hispano-americana (2d ed., Mexico, 1883);
  • Ycazbalceta, Bibliografia mexicana (Mexico, 1886);
  • Diccionario universal de Historia y Geografía (Mexico);
  • Gil Gonzales Dávila, Teatro eclesiástico de la primitiva Iglesia de las Indias occidentales (Madrid, 1654).

External links

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainHerbermann, Charles, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company. 


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