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Antonio Dello Spirito Santo

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Also known as: Spanish: Antonio del Espíritu Santo; Portuguese: António do Espírito Santo

ANTONIO dello SPIRITO SANTO. - Discalced Carmelite mystical writer, b. at Monte Moro Velho (Coimbra), in Portugal. On the proposal of Peter II, king of Portugal, he was elected and consecrated bishop of Angola in 1674; but in the same year he died at Loanda. He wrote Directorium regularium (Lyons 1661 [?]); Directorium confessariorum (ibid. 1671); Directorium mysticum (ibid. 1677), reprinted several times (last ed. Paris 1904).

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BIBL.: Bibliotheca Carmelitico-Lusitana, Rome 1754, pp. 28-30; A. Nicolò, Bibliotheca Hispana, Madrid 1783, I, p. 122; II, p. 318; Silverio di Santa Teresa, Hist. del Carmen Descalzo en España, Portugal y América, X, Burgos 1942, pp. 665-66.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), coll. 1556–1557.

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Silverio di S. Teresa. “Antonio Dello Spirito Santo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, coll. 1556–1557. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/antonio-dello-spirito-santo.

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Silverio di S. Teresa. “Antonio Dello Spirito Santo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, coll. 1556–1557. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/antonio-dello-spirito-santo.

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  author    = {Silverio di S. Teresa},
  title     = {Antonio Dello Spirito Santo},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {1556--1557},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/antonio-dello-spirito-santo}
}

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