ARIAS, FRANCISCO. - Ascetical writer, b. in Seville in 1533, entered the Society of Jesus in 1561, being already a priest and a graduate of the University of Alcalá, d. in Seville on 23 May 1605.
He published at Valencia (1588), under the common title of Aprovechamiento espiritual, a series of rather personal treatises on spiritual progress, distrust of self, prayer (this treatise especially recommended by St. Francis de Sales to Philothea), the presence of God, mortification, the imitation of the Most Holy Virgin, with a rosary of 50 mysteries imitated from Blosius. Of greater bulk, but also more prolix, is his Libro de la Imitación de Cristo Nuestro Señor (3 vols., Seville 1591-1602); in the first volume he treats of the goods we have in Christ; in the second and third of the virtues of which he is an example to us. These works had many translations and reprintings down to the 19th century.
Bibliography4 worksA. Astrain, Historia de la Comp. de Jesús en... España, IV, Madrid 1913, pp. 81-83 and 760-61; J. de Guibert, s.v. in DSp, I, col. 844-92; S
BIBL.: A. Astrain, Historia de la Comp. de Jesús en... España, IV, Madrid 1913, pp. 81-83 and 760-61; J. de Guibert, s.v. in DSp, I, col. 844-92; Sommervogel, I, coll. 240-49; J. E. Uriarte-M. Lecina, Biblioteca de escritores de la Comp. de Jesús... de España, I, Madrid 1925, pp. 279-92.
Lamalle, Edmondo. “Arias, francisco.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 1892. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/arias-francisco.
MLA
Lamalle, Edmondo. “Arias, francisco.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 1892. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/arias-francisco.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec1_arias_francisco,
author = {Lamalle, Edmondo},
title = {Arias, francisco},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {1892},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/arias-francisco}
}
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