ÁLVAREZ, DIEGO. - Spanish Dominican, born in Medina del Rio-Seco, in Old Castile, around the mid-16th century. He was a professor of theology in Spain and later in Rome, where he participated with Thomas de Lemos in the debate against the Molinists in the Congregation De Auxiliis under Clement VIII and Paul V. The latter appointed him Archbishop of Trani (March 19, 1606). He died in 1635, leaving numerous works that reveal him as a theologian of the first rank in matters concerning grace.
Among these, we may mention:
1° *Commentaria in Isaiam prophetae, in qua exsultantur litteralem et moralem cum annotationibus s. Patrum et aliquibus animadversionibus in gratiam praedicatorum in unum collectis* (Rome 1599);
2° *De auxiliis divinae gratiae et humani arbitrii viribus et libertate, ac legitima eius cum efficacia eorumdem auxiliorum concordia libri XII* (Rome 1610; Lyons 1620; Trani 1625);
3° *Responsionum ad obiectiones adversus concordiam liberi arbitrii cum divina praescientia, providentia et praedestinatione atque cum efficacia praevenientis gratiae, prout a s. Thoma et thomistis defenditur et explicatur libri IV* (Trani 1622; Lyons 1622);
4° *Operis de auxiliis divinae gratiae et humani arbitrii viribus et libertate, ac legitima eius cum efficacia eorumdem auxiliorum concordia summa in IV libros distincta* (Lyons 1620, Trani 1625).