Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. V, 1950 Dogmatic theology

Farvacques, Francis

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FARVACQUES, FRANCIS. - Augustinian theologian, b. in Belgium in the first decade of the seventeenth century and d. around 1670. Professor of sacred sciences in the ancient abbey of St. Gertrude in Louvain, he acquired a reputation as an excellent interpreter of the doctrine of the Church through his writings on the thought of the Fathers, on scholasticism and on the councils.

Principal works: De attritione seu quae fuerit mens Concilii Tridentini de sufficiuntia attritioni in sacramento Parvidentiae necessitas assavitur et confirmatur (Louvain 1666); Veritas et caritas, disquisitio theologica (ibid. 1669). Almost all of his writings were included in the edition of his works, which was printed at Liège in 1680, under the title: Opuscula theologica.

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BIBL.: Hurter, IV, coll. 88-89; G. Rambaldi, La proposizione 27 di Aless. VIII e il potere della Chiesa sui Sacramenti, in Gregorianum, 31 (1930), pp. 114-25.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), coll. 1049–1050.

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Falcioni, Davide. “Farvacques, francis.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, coll. 1049–1050. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/farvacques-francis.

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Falcioni, Davide. “Farvacques, francis.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 1049–1050. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/farvacques-francis.

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  author    = {Falcioni, Davide},
  title     = {Farvacques, francis},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {V},
  pages     = {1049--1050},
  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/farvacques-francis}
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