CHINCHILLA, ALONSO. - Benedictine theologian and ascetical writer, b. at Valladolid in 1574: there he became a monk in the monastery of St. Benedict in 1591; from there he moved to St. Martin's in Madrid; d. at Valladolid in 1631.

A man of sincere piety and great learning, as a theologian he is known for the large part he played, together with his better-known confrere Marzilla, in the defense of frequent Communion, for which purpose he composed several short works, still useful today. The most important of these, Memorial de algunos efectos que el Sacramento de la Eucaristía causa en el alma (1611), is perhaps a new edition of the one published in 1608: Consideración de la Comunión. Of this work, and of his other writings, published several times, the editions were soon exhausted, and were already unobtainable in the 17th century.

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BIBL.: M. Ziegelbauer, Historia rei litterariae Ord. S. B., III, Augusta 1754, p. 542; A. Pérez Goyena, La literatura teológica entre los Benedictinos españoles, in Razón y Fe. 46 (1916), pp. 323-324; L. Serrano, Ascéticos benedictinos, Valladolid 1925, pp. 19-20.

Ambrogio Manzone

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