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ASTROY, BARTHÉLEMY d'. - Belgian Franciscan, celebrated controversialist and ascetic writer, b. at Ciney (Namur), d. at Liège on Dec. 6, 1681. In his Order he was lector, provincial of Flanders (1664), and commissary general of the Observance (1667) for the provinces of northern Europe. An eloquent preacher, he was among the most strenuous fighters against Protestantism.
(fot. Specola Vaticana - Castel Gandolfo) ASTRONOMIA - Saturno con la divisione di Cassini nell'anello.His style, at times neglected, is always forceful and persuasive. Dirks reviews 25 of his works in French, Flemish, and Latin, among which: Directorium ad iuvandos consolandosque infirmos (Liège 1655); the 2nd ed. (ibid. 1674), revised and expanded under the title Paraclesis infirmorum, is much better: it is d'A.'s finest writing; Traité du bien de la patience chrétienne (3 vols., ibid. 1669 ff.). His principal works of controversy are: Antidote catholique (ibid. 1655); Armamentarium augustinianum adversus haereses quadruplici methodo apparatum et instructum in subtidium tyronum militantis Ecclesiae (ibid. 1664): this is a dogmatic, apologetic, and polemical theology.
BIBL.:Biographie nationale de Belgique, I. Bruxelles 1866; S. Dirks, Histoire littéraire et bibliographique des frères Mineurs de l'observance de s. François en Belgique et dans les Pays-Bas, Anversa 1885, pp. 274-83; Hurter, II, 2ª ed., coll. 401-403; J. Grob, Recueil d'actes et documents concernant les frères Mineurs dans l'ancien duché du Luxembourg et comté de Chiny, Lussemburgo 1909, passim: J. Goyens, s. V. in DHG, IV, col. 1255; id., s. V. in DSP., I (1937), col. 1047 sgg.
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“ASTROY, BARTHÉLEMY D'.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), p. 171. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/astroy-barthelemy-d.
