ANTONIO da FUENTELAPEÑA. - Spanish ascetical theologian, who entered the Capuchins of the province of Castile in 1643, visitor and commissary general of his Order in Sicily (1678), d. in the early years of the eighteenth century. He is the author of noteworthy ascetical-mystical treatises (Retrato divino, Madrid 1685, 1688, 1701; Escuela de la verdad, Madrid 1700), in which he combats the theories of M. Molinos and other pseudo-mystics of the time. In the book Ente dilucidado (Madrid 1676) he discusses and affirms the possibility of human flight. He promoted devotion to the Eternal Father and composed the text of the office and Mass for the feast which it was desired to introduce into the liturgy in His honor.
BIBL.: Martín de Torrecilla, Apologema, espejo y excelencia de la serafica relación de Men. Capuchinos, 2nd ed., Madrid 1701; Mémoires de Trévoux, Trévoux 1702, p. 184; Bernardo da Bologna, Bibl. script. Ord. Min. Capuc., Venezia 1747, p. 24; V. De Castañeda, El primer libro impreso sobre aviación es español, in Rev. de archivos, bibl. y museos, 33 (1915), pp. 350-60. Ilarino da Milano