LOPES (LÓPEZ), GREGORIO. - Mystic, b. in Madrid on 4 July 1542, d. at Santa Fé (Mexico) on 20 July 1596. He lived in Navarre with a hermit; then at the age of 20 he went to Mexico City, where he lived as an anchorite, working as a copyist. He later moved to Santa Fé, where he devoted himself to the care of the sick, continuing his harsh penances and converting many infidels.

An elevated mystic, he lived continually in the presence of God, and of himself he relates that "for thirty-six years he had been continually in a pure and naked act of the love of God, without interrupting it even for a moment." The Quietists, especially Molinos and Mme Guyon, held L. in the highest honor and abused some of his texts.

Of his many writings one may cite, besides notable works on medicine and natural history: Explicación del Apocalipsis; Cartas y otros varios papeles; Manual y advertencias para obispos y confesores; Industrias para misiones. The Spanish Academy included L. in its Catalogo de Autoridades de la Leta

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BIBL.: F. Losa-Giovanni da S. Giacomo, Vida que el siervo de Dios G. L. llevó en algunos lugares de Nueva España, Seville 1618, Madrid 1642 and 1658; H. Happe, Geschichte der quististischen Mystik in der hath. Kirche, Berlin 1875, p. 39 ff.; anon., s. v. in Enc. Eur. Am., XXXI, p. 113.

Alvaro Del Portillo

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Lopes (López), Gregorio

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