Sancho Dávila Toledo

Sancho Dávila Toledo (Sancho de Avila) (born at Avila of the Kings, in Old Castile, 1546, and named after the place of his birth; died at Plasencia, in the same province, 6 or 7 December, 1625) was a Spanish bishop. He was of a distinguished family, and known as a learned preacher.

Life

He made his ecclesiastical studies and received his doctorate at the University of Salamanca. He was afterwards consecrated bishop and was, at different times, bishop of Murcia, bishop of Jaen in Andalusia, bishop of Siguenza in Old Castile, in 1615, and, seven years later, bishop of Plasencia, where he remained until his death. He had been a confessor of Theresa of Avila.

Works

His works in Spanish include:

*"The Veneration Due to the Bodies and Relics of Saints" (Madrid, 1611);
*"Sermons" (Baeza, 1615);
*"The Sighs of St. Augustine", from the Latin (Madrid, 1601, 1626);
*and, in manuscript, the Lives of Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas.