CALATAYUD, PEDRO de. - Spanish Jesuit, ascetical writer, b. at Tafalla (Navarre) on 1 Aug. 1689, d. at Bologna on 27 Feb. 1773. After a period of teaching, from 1728 he devoted himself entirely to preaching to the clergy and the people, for which he was famous throughout the whole Iberian peninsula. He had to leave it in 1767 when the Society of Jesus was expelled from Spain.
Among his many works we note: Incendios de amor sagrado (Murcia 1734), for which C. is among the first promoters of the cult of the Sacred Heart in Spain; Práctica de la vida dulce y racional del cristiano (Valencia 1734); Juicio de los sacerdotes, doctrina práctica y anatomía de sus conciencias (ibid. 1736); Doctrinas prácticas... para desenredar y dirigir las conciencias (2 vols., ibid. 1737 and 1739): this is among C.'s best works and allows us to form an idea of his spirituality, which fuses personal experience with the ascetics and mysticism of the great Spanish writers of the period; Sentencias varias, sacadas de los profetas y de los libros de la Sagrada Escritura (Salamanca 1742); Catecismo práctico (Valladolid 1747); El magisterio de la fe y de la razón (Seville 1760), etc.
Bibliography3 worksL. Koch, Jesuiten-Lexikon, Paderborn 1934, p. 286 ff.; C. G. Rodeles, Vida del célebre misionero p.P.C., Madrid 1882; A. Astrain, Historia d
BIBL.: L. Koch, Jesuiten-Lexikon, Paderborn 1934, p. 286 ff.; C. G. Rodeles, Vida del célebre misionero p.P.C., Madrid 1882; A. Astrain, Historia de la Compañía de Jesús en la Asistencia de España, VII, Madrid 1925, passim.
Tinivella, Felicissimo. “Calatayud, pedro de.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, coll. 322–323. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/calatayud-pedro-de.
MLA
Tinivella, Felicissimo. “Calatayud, pedro de.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 322–323. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/calatayud-pedro-de.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec3_calatayud_pedro_de,
author = {Tinivella, Felicissimo},
title = {Calatayud, pedro de},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {322--323},
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/calatayud-pedro-de}
}
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