CAPILLA, ANDRÉS. - Spanish Carthusian, ascetical writer. Born at Valencia in 1529, died at Urgel on 22 September 1609. Having entered the Society of Jesus at the age of 15, he taught theology at Valencia, then at the Roman College. After various fruitless attempts, he obtained from St. Pius V permission to withdraw among the Carthusians (Scala Dei near Tarragona, 1569). He was prior in various charterhouses in Italy and Spain, and in 1587 he was consecrated bishop of Urgel. As an ascetical writer he is of notable importance; he was praised by St. Francis de Sales.
His principal works, which had many versions and reprints: Libro de la oración en que se ponen consideraciones sobre los Evangelios de todos los domingos del año y algunas fiestas principales, Lerida 1572; Manual de ejercicios espirituales, ibid. 1576; Libro segundo de la oración... consideraciones de todas las ferias de cuaresma, Saragossa 1577; Libro tercero... consideraciones de los Evangelios de algunas fiestas principales de los santos, Salamanca 1580; it is his masterpiece and was translated into Latin, Italian and French. It is the first to propose as the subject of meditation the Gospel texts of the proper liturgy of the time and of the saints. With his Commentaria in Ieremium prophetam (Charterhouse of Scala dei 1586) C. reveals himself as an erudite exegete.
Bibliography4 worksJ. De Vallès, Primero instituto de la sagrada religión de la Cartuja, Madrid 1663; L. Le Vasseur, Ephemerides ordinis cartusiensis III, Mont
BIBL.: J. De Vallès, Primero instituto de la sagrada religión de la Cartuja, Madrid 1663; L. Le Vasseur, Ephemerides ordinis cartusiensis III, Montreuil 1890 ff., pp. 334-40; Monumenta historica Societ. Iesu. XX: Monumenta Borgiae, IV, Madrid 1910, pp. 438-79, 492, 509-12, 677; J. de Guibert, s. v. in DSp, II, coll. 117-19.
Tinivella, Felicissimo. “Capilla, andrés.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, coll. 662–663. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/capilla-andres.
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Tinivella, Felicissimo. “Capilla, andrés.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 662–663. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/capilla-andres.
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@incollection{ec3_capilla_andres,
author = {Tinivella, Felicissimo},
title = {Capilla, andrés},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {662--663},
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/capilla-andres}
}
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