CELESTRI, ANTONIO. - Italian theologian, b. in Palermo on 13 Oct. 1649 and d. there on 19 March 1706. At the age of 16 he became a religious of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis (1664); he taught philosophy and theology in various convents of the Order, and was provincial of Rome and of Sicily, then procurator general (1683-86).
He wrote the apologetic work Christiana cath. religio contra gentiles, mahumetanos, hebraeos et sectarios, 23 propositionibus demonstrata (Rome 1683), and a learned Tabula Conciliorum generalium omnium, 1 vol. in-fol. (ibid. 1684; 2nd ed., under the title Conciliorum omnium schema).
Bibliography3 worksA. Mongitore, Bibliotheca sicula, I, Palermo 1707, p. 39; E. d'Alençon, s. v. in DThC, II, col. 2068; R. Luconi, Comitia gen. III Ord. Regul
BIBL.: A. Mongitore, Bibliotheca sicula, I, Palermo 1707, p. 39; E. d'Alençon, s. v. in DThC, II, col. 2068; R. Luconi, Comitia gen. III Ord. Regul. S. Franc. eorumque acta selecta, Rome 1944, p. 80.
Di, Fonzo Lorenzo. “Celestri, antonio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 1261. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/celestri-antonio.
MLA
Di, Fonzo Lorenzo. “Celestri, antonio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1261. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/celestri-antonio.
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@incollection{ec3_celestri_antonio,
author = {Di, Fonzo Lorenzo},
title = {Celestri, antonio},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {1261},
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/celestri-antonio}
}
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