FRUSIUS (DES FRIUX), ANDRÉ. - Humanist Jesuit, b. at Chartres at the beginning of the 16th century, d. 26 Oct. 1556.
A man of letters and a scholar, versed in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, he translated the Spiritual Exercises into Latin, thus providing their editio vulgata. In 1547, together with St. Pietro Canisio, he went to the College of Messina, where he taught Greek, expounded St. Paul, and devoted himself to the reform of the Sicilian clergy. Rector of the College of Venice in 1551, he moved in 1553 to that of Rome, always continuing to teach, and was also rector of the German College.
Nor did he neglect his humanistic inclinations, writing Latin epigrams and dialogues, preparing editions of the classics ad acum inventatis, and composing a Latin syntax and a kind of stylistic manual: De utraque copia verborum et rerum praecepta, in verse.