- Francisco Macedo
Francisco Macedo (born at
Coimbra , Portugal, 1596; diedPadua ,1 May 1681 ), known as S. Augustino, was a PortugueseFranciscan theologian.Life
He entered the
Jesuit Order in 1610, which however he left in 1638 in order to join theDiscalced Franciscans . These also he left in 1648, for theObservantines . In Portugal he sided with theHouse of Braganza .Summoned to Rome by
Pope Alexander VII , he taught theology at theCollege of the Propaganda , and afterwards church history at the Sapienza, and as consultor to theInquisition . AtVenice in 1667, during the week beginning 26 September, he held a public disputation, against all comers, on nearly every branch of human knowledge, especially the Bible, theology, patrology, history, law, literature, and poetry. He named this disputation, in his quaint and extravagant style, "Leonis Marci rugitus litterarii" (the literary roaring of the Lion of St. Mark); this obtained for him the freedom of the city of Venice and the professorship of moral philosophy at theUniversity of Padua .Works
Rather restless, but a man of enormous erudition, he wrote a number of books, of which over 100 appeared in print, and about thirty are still unprinted. They included:
*"Collationes doctrinae S. Thomae et Scoti (Padua, 1671, 1673, 1680), 3 vols. in folio;
*"Scholae theologicae positivae ad... confutationem haereticorum" (Rome, 1696) copied in part in Roccaberti, "Bibliotheca Maxima Pontifica", XII (Rome, 1696) 221-48;
*"De clavibus Petri" (Rome, 1660) partially reprinted in Roccaberti, XII, 113-37; Controversiae selectae contra haereticos" (Rome, 1663)
*"Assertor romanus adversus calumnias heterodoxorum Anglorum praesertim et Scotorum in academiis Oxoniensi, Cantabrigiensi et Aberdoniensi" (Rome, 1667);
*"Tessera romana auctoritatis pontificiae adversus buccinam Thomae Angli" (London, 1654), also in Roccaberti, XII, 164-220.He also took an active part in the Jansenist controversy, being at first inclined to
Jansenism ; but afterwards he defendedAugustine of Hippo 's teaching with regard tograce .*"Scrutinium divi Augustini" (London, 1644; Paris, 1648; Munster, 1649);
*"Cortina divi Augustini" (Paris, 1648 etc);
*"Mens divinitus inspirata SS. papae Innocentii X". (Louvain, 1655);
*"Commentationes duae ecclesiastico-polemicae" (Verona, 1674), concerningVincent of Lérins andHilarius of Arles , against whomH. Norisius wrote his "Adventoria" in "Patrologia Latina ". XLVII, 538 sq. "Medulla hstoriae ecclesisticae" (Padua, 1671);
*"Azymus Eucharisticus", Ingolstadt ( Venice, --), 1673, against CardinalGiovanni Bona , and at once placed on the Index (21 June, 1673), "until it is corrected", which was done in the new edition (Verona, 1673);Mabillon also wrote against this.
*"Schema S. congregationis s. officii" (Padua, 1676).External links
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09491b.htm "Catholic Encyclopedia" article]
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