ILARIO DA PARIGI - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. VI, p. 937

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

ILARIO of Paris. – Capuchin theologian, born in Paris on 23 Nov. 1831, drowned near Castel S. Elia (Viterbo) on 18 July 1904. Already a priest, with degrees in theology and canon law, he entered the religious life on 2 Aug. 1859; he accompanied as theologian the bishop of Geneva Mermillod, later a cardinal, to the Vatican Council.

He began a Theologia universalis (3 vols., Lyons 1868–1871), left incomplete owing to the vastness of the project; in Cur Deus homo? (Lyons 1867, Amiens 1886) he sets out the Thomist view on the reason for the Incarnation; in connection with the Vatican Council is the treatise De dogmaticis definitionibus (Freiburg 1871); in Notre-Dame de Lourdes et l’Immaculée Conception (Lyons 1880) he studied thoroughly the privilege of Mary; in Liber Tertii Ordinis s. Francisci

Article illustration — (Geneva, Paris, Brussels 1888) he published rich historical and juridical material that had previously served the Roman Congregations (2 vols., Rome 1881–82) for the

(by courtesy of Fr Ilarino of Milan, O.F.M. Cap.) Ilario of Paris – Ritzatto – Rome. General Archive of the Capuchin Friars Minor.