Arintero-Gonzales, Juan

ARINTERO-GONZALES, JUAN. - Dominican theologian and writer, b. at Lugueros (province of León) in Spain on 24 June 1860, d. at Salamanca on 20 Feb. 1928.

Having taken the Dominican habit in the convent of Corias (Asturias), he made his religious profession there and began his studies of philosophy there. In 1881 he was transferred to the historic convent of St. Stephen in Salamanca, in order to complete his theological formation at the local University. He was ordained a priest on 23 Sept. 1883. He spent the greater part of his life devoted to teaching, first at the College of Vergara (Guipúzcoa) from 1886 to 1892, then at Corias, until 1898, then at Valladolid until 1903, and finally at Salamanca, where he founded the journal «Vida Sobrenatural», specializing in questions of mysticism. In 1910 he was a member of the College of Professors of the Angelicum in Rome, collaborating at the same time with the scholarly journal «Ciencia Tomista».

His life was exemplary for holiness and apostolate: he succeeded in becoming one of the best spiritual directors of his time. In his last years he devoted himself to promoting devotion to «Amor Misericordioso».

Principal works: El Diluvio Universal (Madrid 1891); Examen de la Ciencia Moderna (Valladolid 1901); La Providencia y la Evolución (ibid. 1903); Teología y Teofobia (ibid. 1904); De Ecclesia (4 vols., Salamanca 1903-1906); Cuestiones Místicas (ibid. 1927); Grados de Oración (ibid. 1927); La Verdadera Mística Tradicional (ibid. 1925); La Evolución Mística (ibid. 1909).