ANTOLÍNEZ, AGUSTÍN. - Augustinian theologian, b. Valladolid 6 Dec. 1554, d. Compostella 19 June 1626. He made his religious profession in the Augustinian convent of his native city in 1571; in 1582 he was master of students in the convent of Salamanca.
Professor of theology at the University of Valladolid and later of theology and Sacred Scripture at the University of Salamanca, he was also superior of the flourishing Castilian province from 1598 to 1607. He resumed teaching until 1623, the year in which he was preconized bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo. On 26 Aug. 1624 he was transferred to the metropolitan see of Compostella, where he died in a reputation for holiness.
He wrote: *Tractatus de Deo, de gratiae auxiliis et de praedestinatione*; *In I-II circa qq. de voluntario*; *In qq. 2 libri Iob*; *Expositio Bullae cruciatae Sixti V*; commentaries on certain psalms; *Vida de s. Juan de Sahagún* (Salamanca 1605); *Historia de S. Clara de Montefalco* (Salamanca 1613); *Regla dada por N. S. Agustín a sus mori s con las constituiones para la nueva recolección de ellas* (Madrid 1616); *Storie di altri santi del suo Ordine*, left unpublished; *Amores de Dios y el alma*, commentary on the mystical songs of S. Giovanni della Croce (Madrid, Bibl. naz., mss. 2037, 6895, 7072 and 13505).