Anadón, Juan

ANADON, JUÁN. – Ascetic Carthusian writer, born at Vivel del Rio Martín (Spain) in the first half of the seventeenth century, died at Las Fuentes on 14 April 1682. He took the Carthusian habit at the charterhouse called Aula Dei near Saragossa, where he served twice as vicar. He was also prior of the charterhouse of Our Lady of Las Fuentes (diocese of Huesca) and confessor to Prince Giovanni d’Austria, son of Philip IV. To him he dedicated his work Fomes divini amoris, seu amatorium divinum, ex caelestibus floribus ac mire accensis Sanctorum Patrum et piissimorum Doctorum alloquiis deceptum (Madrid, 1678), in which he seeks to dispose the soul to divine contemplation. Silverio di Santa Teresa