Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VI, 1951 Saints & hagiography

Giuseppe dello Spirito Santo

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Also known as: Joseph of the Holy Spirit; Italian: Giuseppe Barroso; Latin: Lusitanus

GIUSEPPE DELLO SPIRITO SANTO. - Portuguese mystical theologian, Discalced Carmelite, in the world Giuseppe Barroso, b. 26 Dec. 1609 at Braga, called Lusitanus, d. at Madrid 27 Jan. 1676.

He received the habit of the Discalced Carmelites in 1632 at Lisbon. An excellent preacher, he converted many sinners. He guided many souls along the way of perfection and was endowed with supernatural charisms. In 1654 he founded a convent of his Order at Braga, then several others in other cities of Portugal; he refused the episcopal see offered him by the King.

Works: Cadena mystica carmelitana de los autores carmelitas descalzos... (Madrid 1678); Enucleatio mysticae theologiae s. Dionysii Areopagitae... (Cologne 1684, Rome 1927; critical ed. by Anastasio di S. Paolo); besides very many many sermons in the Portuguese language, of which only 15 were published.

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BIBL.: Martialis a S. Joh. Bapt., Biblioth. Carmelitana Exc., Bordeaux 1730, p. 268; P. N., Bibl. Carm. Lusitana, Rome 1734, p. 159; Anastasio di S. Paolo, s. v. in DThC, VIII, coll. 1539-1541; id., Introductio all'Euclestio mysticae theol., Rome 1927.

Ambrogio di Santa Teresa

GIUSEPPE of the HOLY SPIRIT. - In the world Giuseppe Velarde, Spanish theologian, Discalced Carmelite, b. in 1667 at Huelva (Andalusia), d. at Madrid 2 June 1736. He became a Discalced Carmelite at Seville, where he professed on 14 Nov. 1683. He taught philosophy and theology for 9 years in the College of Ecija, then of Seville, of which he was three times rector; he was moreover provincial of the province of Andalusia (1712-15), definitor general of the Congregation of Spain (1712-1718, 1724), and finally prior general (1736), but he died a few months after his election.

He wrote: Cursus theologiae mystico-scholasticae, iuxta doctrinam D. Thomae... (6 vols., Seville 1720-40), the most extensive and most perfect and profound work on the subject. New ed. edited by Fr. Anastasio di S. Paolo (Bruges 1924-29), still incomplete.

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BIBL.: Martialis a S. Joh. Bapt., Biblioth. Carmelitana Exc., Bordeaux 1730, p. 268; Hurter, IV, III, col. 1027; Eduardo de S. Teresa, Prelados de la Congr. de España, in El Monte Carmelo, 10 (1909), p. 571; Anastasio di S. Paolo, s. v. in DThC, VIII, coll. 1533-38; id., in Introductio alla nuova ed., I, Bruges 1924, pp. IX-XVI.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), coll. 816–817.

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Ambrogio di S. Teresa. “Giuseppe Dello Spirito Santo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, coll. 816–817. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/giuseppe-dello-spirito-santo.

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Ambrogio di S. Teresa. “Giuseppe Dello Spirito Santo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, coll. 816–817. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/giuseppe-dello-spirito-santo.

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  author    = {Ambrogio di S. Teresa},
  title     = {Giuseppe Dello Spirito Santo},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1951},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/giuseppe-dello-spirito-santo}
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