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Eliesen (Helgesen), Paolo

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ELIESEN (HELGESEN), PAOLO. - Danish theologian, b. at Varberg (today Halland) ca. 1480, d. in 1536, perhaps killed by the Lutherans. In 1517 he became a Carmelite in Helsingør; in 1519 he was prior in Copenhagen and professor of theology at that University, and in 1527 provincial. He was the last defender of Catholic doctrine against the Lutherans in the Nordic countries. In his writings (more than thirty), in Danish and Latin, published at Copenhagen (1932-48, 7 vols.), almost all of an apologetic character, E. shows himself very well versed in Sacred Scripture, in Church history and in canon law, far surpassing his countrymen of his time.

BIRL.: C. E. Secher, P. Eliessen danske Skrifter, Copenhagen 1855, p. 208; E. Schmidt, S. P. Der Karmeliter Paulus Helios, Verhängfer der Kath. Kirche... in Dänemark, Freiburg 1893; P. J. Reiter, Lektor Paul, Copenhagen 1916.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), coll. 239–240.

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Ambrogio di S. Teresa. “Eliesen (Helgesen), paolo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, coll. 239–240. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/eliesen-helgesen-paolo.

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Ambrogio di S. Teresa. “Eliesen (Helgesen), paolo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 239–240. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/eliesen-helgesen-paolo.

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  author    = {Ambrogio di S. Teresa},
  title     = {Eliesen (Helgesen), paolo},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {V},
  pages     = {239--240},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/eliesen-helgesen-paolo}
}

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