LEMOS, TOMMASO de. - Dominican theologian, born at Rivadavia (Galicia) around 1546, died in Rome on 23 August 1629. He entered the Order in his native city. Regent of the Studium of Valladolid in 1590, he was teaching there in 1594 when the Molinist controversy broke out between the Jesuits and the Dominicans. Together with his confrère Diego Alvares, he was chosen to represent the Order officially in the discussions, when Clement VIII reserved to himself the resolution of that controversy. In the 47 disputations held over four years (1602-1606) before Clement VIII and Paolo V, he eloquently displayed the power of his intellect and his gifts as an orator. When the discussions were concluded, he refused the bishopric offered him by the King of Spain and withdrew to the convent of the Minerva in Rome.
He himself collected the proceedings of the 47 disputations, which were published only in 1702: Acta omnia congregationum ac disputationum (Louvain 1702). He wrote much else on the disputed subject; famous is the Panoplia gratiae (4 vols., Liège 1676), certainly one of the finest works of the Thomist school on Grace. The Order vigorously defended L. when this work was attacked by the inquisitor Knippenberg.