BAEZA, Diego de. - Spanish Jesuit, b. at Ponferrada (León) in 1582, entered the novitiate of Salamanca in 1600, taught philosophy at Valencia and Valladolid and then had great success as a preacher. D. at Valladolid in 1647.

He left two volumes of sermons: Sermones en todas las fiestas de Nuestra Señora, tres en cada una (Valladolid 1642); Sermones funerales... (ibid. 1645). But he is famous for two powerful works: Commentaria moralia in Evangelicum historiam, 4 vols., in-fol. (ibid. 1623-30), more than ten reprints at Lyon, Venice, Paris, Cologne; Commentaria allegorica de Christo figurato in Veteri Testamento, 4 vols. (Valladolid 1632-40), complete ed. at Lyon 1636-53, 7 vols., in-fol., reprinted at Paris and Venice.

These works, especially the first, are a mine, disorderly but very rich, of preachable material, with ample indexes "ad usum concionatorum"; they were therefore heavily plundered.

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: Sommervogel, I, coll. 764-69; J. E. Uriarte and M. Lecina, Bibli. de écritures de la Comp. de Jesús... de España, I, Madrid 1925, pp. 405-12; A. Astrain, Historia de la Comp. de Jesús en la Asistencia de España, V, Madrid 1916, pp. 76-77.

Edmondo Lamalle

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