Dutch Jesuit father and theologian. Nijmegen, 8 May 1521 - Freiburg (Switzerland), 21 December 1597. Beatified by Pope Pius IX on 20 November 1864. Studied at the universities of Cologne (1536-1540) and Louvain (1539). In the Jesuit Order on 8 May 1543 (priest in 1546). He worked mostly in Germany and Switzerland. He was one of the great promotors of the Catholic Counter-Reformation. Cf. Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek, 5, 1921, Columns 91-98; De Backer-Sommervogel, II, Columns 617-688; F. Streicher, S. Petri Canisii Doctoris Ecclesiae catechismi latini et germanici, I, Rome, 1933. See also on Canisius: J.H.M. Tesser, Petrus Canisius als humanistisch geleerde, Amsterdam, 1932; J. Brodrick, Petrus Canisius, 1521-1597, Vienna, 1950, 2 vols.; H. de Vocht, History of the foundation and the rise of the Collegium Trilingue Lovaniense, 1517-1550, Louvain, II, pages 139-142, 304, III, page 229. Other bibliographical references in A. Gerlo - H.D.L. Vervliet, Bibliographie de l'humanisme des anciens Pays-Bas, 1972, pages 266-267.
I. Parvus catechismus: Institutiones christianae pietatis, seu parvus catechismus catholicorum.
- cp012242: Catechismus, 1562.
- cp012236: Institutiones christianae pietatis, seu parvus catechismus catholicorum, 1566.
- cp011812: Institutiones christianae pietatis, seu parvus catechismus catholicorum, 1567.
- cp013426: Institutiones christianae pietatis, seu parvus catechismus catholicorum, 1568.
- cp012473: Institutiones christianae pietatis, seu parvus catechismus catholicorum, 1570.
- cp013281: Institutiones christianae pietatis, seu parvus catechismus catholicorum, 1572.
- cp010595: Institutiones christianae pietatis, seu parvus catechismus catholicorum, 1575.
- cp012224: Institutiones christianae pietatis, seu parvus catechismus catholicorum, 1578.
- cp011700: Institutiones christianae pietatis, seu parvus catechismus catholicorum, 1581.
- cp010711: Institutiones christianae pietatis, seu parvus catechismus catholicorum, 1585.
- cp012846: Institutiones christianae pietatis, seu parvus catechismus catholicorum, 1587.
- cp013510: Institutiones christianae, seu parvus catechismus catholicorum. Antwerp, Plantin and Philippus Galle, 1589.
- cp012588: Waerachtighe ende oprechte onderwijsinghe inden Catholijcke gheloove, 1568.
- cp010474: Waerachtighe ende oprechte onderwijsinghe inden Catholijcke gheloove, 1571.
- cp011554: Institutiones christianae pietatis, seu parvus catechismus catholicorum, in French translation, ?.
II. Institutiones et exercitamenta christianae pietatis.
III. Manuale catholicorum.
- cp012713: Manuale catholicorum, 1588.
- cp011786: Manuale catholicorum, 1588.
- cp010010: Manuale catholicorum, 1589.
- cp010510: Manuale catholicorum, 1589.
- cp012610: Handtboeck der catholijcken, 1589.
- cp012414: Le manuel des catholiques, [translated by Gabriel Chappuys], 1589.
- cp011964: Le manuel des catholiques, 1589.
IV. Summa doctrinae.
- cp013199: Summa doctrinae christianae per quaestiones luculenter conscripta. Antwerp, Plantin, 1566.
- cp012574: Summa doctrinae christianae per quaestiones luculenter conscripta. Antwerp, Plantin and Maternus Cholinus, 1566.
- cp012657: Summa doctrinae christianae per quaestiones luculenter conscripta, 1567.
- cp013534: Summa doctrinae christianae per quaestiones luculenter conscripta, 1569.
- cp013405: Summa doctrinae christianae, 1571.
- cp010469: Summa doctrinae christianae, 1574.
- cp012417: Summa doctrinae christianae, 1580.
- cp013361: Summa doctrinae christianae, 1587.