LANCELOTZ, HENRI. - Augustinian theologian and controversialist, b. in Belgium in 1576, d. at Antwerp on 11 Jan. 1643. He received his doctorate in theology at Louvain. He restored regular observance in various convents and provinces of his Order and was a vigorous defender of the rights and doctrine of the Church against the claims of the Lutherans and Calvinists, whom he tirelessly combated by writings and speeches.
Principal works: Pharus apostolica contra Calvinistas (Antwerp 1611); De illegitima et subreptitia missione Lutheranorum et Calvinistarum (ibid. 1916); Abecedarium Lutherano-Calvinisticum (ibid. 1617); De libertate religionis e republica Christiana proscibeuda (Mainz 1622); Corona Calviniana (Antwerp 1629); Paraenesis ad Ferdinandum II imperatorem pro calvinismi e toto imperio proscriptione (ibid. 1630).