FRANCESCO DI GESÙ MARIA

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FRANCISCO of Jesus Mary. — Discalced Carmelite theologian, originally from Burgos, d. at Salamanca in 1677. He taught theology for many years at the famous college of Salamanca, was prior of various convents, and a man of tested prudence and extraordinary austerity.

He published the first volume of the *Cursus Salmanticensis moralis* with treatises: *De Sacramentis in genere*, *De Baptismo*, *De Confirmatione*, *De Eucharistia*, *De Extrema Unctione* (Salamanca 1663, Antwerp 1672, Madrid 1709, Venice 1750), *Commentarius in Apocalypsin*, together with the treatise: *De sensibus S. Scripturae* (2 vols., Lyons 1648–49), *Incendium animae fidelis ad amorem* (Salamanca 1680).

Bibl.: Hurter, IV, cols. 276–77; C. de Villiers, *Bibl. Carm.*, 2nd coll. I, Rome 1727, p. 301; Silverio of St Teresa, *Hist. del Carm. Desc. en España*, IX, Burgos 1940, pp. 16–58. Ambrose of St Teresa