INNOCENZO DI SANT'ANDREA

INNOCENZO di SANT'ANDREA. — Spanish Discalced Carmelite, in the world Innocenzo de la Carra y López, born in 1553 at Tafalla (Navarra), died in 1620 at Granada. He was received into the Order at Pastrana in 1572 by s. Giovanni della Croce, of whom I. was not only a companion in various convents and on his journeys, but also a faithful disciple of his holiness and doctrine.

Under the name of Andrés Lazarra Cruzate, he published the work:

Teología mística y espejo de la vida eterna por el cual son encaminadas las almas que desean alcancalla (Rome 1615).

BIBL.: Martialis a S. Jeanne Bapt., Bibliotheca Scriptorum Carra. Exc., Bordeaux 1730, p. 213; Silverio de s. Teresa, Historia del Carmen Descalzo en España, etc., IX, Burgos 1940, pp. 137–39. Ambrogio di Santa Teresa
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“INNOCENZO DI SANT'ANDREA.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII (1951), p. 44. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/innocenzo-di-sant-andrea.