Enciclopedia Cattolica

Justin (Zapertowicz) of Miechów

GIUSTINO (ZAPERTOWICZ) DA MIECHÓW

Volume VI · p. 515 · 1951

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

GIUSTINO (ZAPERTOWICZ) da MIECHÓW. - Polish Dominican preacher and writer, born at Mie-

chów about 1597-91 (not 1594), died at the beginning of 1649 (indirect sources give 1642). In 1616 he went to Bologna for his studies.

Having returned to his homeland (1622), in 1628 he was promoted to bachelor at the General Chapter of Toulouse. In 1634 he is found as prior at Danzig, and three years later as regent of the Studium generale of Cracow. He devoted himself assiduously and very fruitfully to preaching. Among his writings, special mention should be made of the substantial Mariological work Discursus praedicabiles super litanias lauretanus B. V. M. in duos tomos distributi... (Paris 1642, Lyons 1660 [more correct], Warsaw 1735, Naples 1857; French trans. by A. Ricard, 1868, 1870).

BIBL.: Discursus praedicabiles... Naples ed., pp. 3-6 (in the Lyons ed. the first pages are unnumbered), where the author recalls certain episodes of his life: Quétif-Echard, II, p. 2203; M.-M. Gorce, s. V. in DThC, X, 1, col. 1720; A. Xuereb, Doctrina p. mag. Justi Miechnoiensis, O. P., de medicina B. V. in distributione gratiarum (still unpublished thesis, defended at the Faculty of Theology of the International Angelicum Institute in Rome in 1940). Abele Redigonda
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“GIUSTINO (ZAPERTOWICZ) DA MIECHÓW.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), p. 515. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/giustino-zapertowicz-da-miechow.