ASTRAIN, ANTONIO. - Jesuit and historian, b. at Undiano (Navarre) on 17 November 1857, d. at Loyola on 4 January 1928. Endowed with excellent qualities as a writer and historian, he first devoted himself to directing the Mensajero del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús and the important publication Monumenta Historica S. I. From 1895 he applied himself solely to writing the history of his Order in the European and overseas provinces of the Spanish-speaking world, traveling for that purpose through libraries and archives in various parts of the world.
The work finally appeared in 7 vols.: Historia de la Compañía de Jesús en la Asistencia de España (Madrid 1902-1925). Rich in documentation, largely unpublished, composed according to the best scientific criteria, with full mastery of the subject, it constitutes a source of the first rank also for the history of the Church in Spanish lands. The author also wrote a Vida breve de s. Ignacio (Madrid 1921) and was an assiduous contributor to various periodicals (Razón y Fe, Gregorianum, etc.) and to the Catholic Encyclopedia.
BibliographyA. Pérez Goyena, El r. p. A. A., in Razón y Fe, 2 (1928), pp. 170-75.
BIBL.: A. Pérez Goyena, El r. p. A. A., in Razón y Fe, 2 (1928), pp. 170-75.
Testore, Celestino. “Astrain, antonio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, coll. 228–229. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/astrain-antonio.
MLA
Testore, Celestino. “Astrain, antonio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 228–229. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/astrain-antonio.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec2_astrain_antonio,
author = {Testore, Celestino},
title = {Astrain, antonio},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
pages = {228--229},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/astrain-antonio}
}
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