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CANISIUS, Petrus

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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.

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