CASAL, GASPAR. - Distinguished Portuguese theologian, b. at Santarém ca. 1510, d. at Coimbra on 9 Aug. 1584. Having entered the Augustinian order, he studied and taught at Coimbra; preconized bishop of Funchal on the island of Madeira (1551), he was promoted in 1557 to the see of Leiria and then to that of Coimbra in 1579. Sent by King Sebastian to the Council of Trent, he distinguished himself there by his timely and acute observations on the great problems then under discussion (1561-63).
His entire theological output, reflecting the concerns of the moment, is directed against Protestantism: Axiomatum christionorum II, 3 (Coimbra 1550, a defense of tradition and of the magisterium of the Church); De sacrificio Missae (Venice 1563); De coena et calice D.m ad Pium IV (ibid. 1563); De quadripartita iustitia (ibid. 1565, on the nature of justification). Of particular interest is the book on the Mass, in which with great learning he constructs a synthesis that echoes the thought of St. Thomas and of Cajetan and preludes the theory of the immolatio per reductionem in statum decliviorem of Lugo and Franzelin. The sentence is symptomatic: Non potest ibi (Christus) exercere aliquam operationem vitalem (De sacrif. Missae, ch. 19, f. 61°).
Bibliography4 worksA. Palmieri, s. v. in DThC, II, col. 1820; M. Lepin, L'idée du sacrifice de la Messe d'après les théologiens, 2nd ed., Paris 1926, pp. 341,
BIBL.: A. Palmieri, s. v. in DThC, II, col. 1820; M. Lepin, L'idée du sacrifice de la Messe d'après les théologiens, 2nd ed., Paris 1926, pp. 341, 378-82; M. Alonso, El sacrificio emorístico de l'última cena del Señor según el Conc. Trid., Madrid 1929, pp. 299-303; S. Resende, O Sacrificio de Missa em D. Frei Gaspar do C., Porto 1941 (on pp. 3-29 the most recent and accurate biography of C.).
Piolanti, Antonio. “Casal, gaspar.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 964. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/casal-gaspar.
MLA
Piolanti, Antonio. “Casal, gaspar.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 964. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/casal-gaspar.
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@incollection{ec3_casal_gaspar,
author = {Piolanti, Antonio},
title = {Casal, gaspar},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {964},
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/casal-gaspar}
}
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