FRANCIS MARIA OF BRUSSELS. - Capuchin theologian of the Flemish-Belgian province, b. in Brussels in 1665, d. at Ghent on 18 Oct. 1713. He became a religious at Louvain in 1682, and was later definitor and commissary general.

As a lecturer in theology he provided the schools of the Order with a Cursus theologiae tripartitus secundum dogmata Augustini, Bonaventurae ac Thomae (3 vols., Ghent 1698-1701, reprinted at Brussels in 1744); he reworked a 2nd ed. of it, printed posthumously under the title Theologia Capuccino-seraphica (ibid. 1705-1707, and ibid. 1715-18); in this work he intends to bring out the sources of the traditional theology of the Order. He combated Jansenist and anti-papal doctrines in the Synopsis apocalyptica-cantatrix eventuum praecipiorum Ecclesiae primitivae (ibid. 1710). As commissary general (1709) he pacified the province, which was troubled by internal dissensions.

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BIBL.: Prospero da Martignè, La scolastica e le tradizioni francescane, II, 2nd ed. Foligno 1890, p. 206; Gerlach van't Hertogenbosch, Aantecheningen over onze schrijvers, in Franciscaensch Leven, 17 (1934), pp. 292-93; L. Geijssema, De difficulistibus, protestis ignominis, in provincia Flandra-belgica Min. Capuccinorum, in Collectioneo Franc., 8 (1938), pp. 389, 393-94; Melchior a Pobladura, Historia generalis Ordinis Min. Capuccinorum, part 2, I, Rome 1948, p. 354.

Ilarino da Milano

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