LUPUS (DE WULF), CRISTIANO. - Augustinian theologian and patrologist, b. at Ypres on 12 June 1612, d. at Louvain on 10 July 1681. He taught philosophy at Brussels and Cologne and theology at Douai and Louvain; from 1655 to 1660 and from 1677 to 1679 he resided in Rome, where he had come to request the condemnation of the 65 propositions of laxism, proscribed by Innocent XI; in the period 1676-80 he was superior of the Cologne province.

The principal aim of his writings was the defense of the Apostolic See: Synodorum general, ac provincial, decreta et canones; Ad Ephesium concilium variorum patrum epistolae; Divinum ac immobile s. Petri... adversum profanas hodie vocum novitates assertum privilegium; Dissertationes, all in Opera omnia (12 vols., Venice 1724-29).

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BIBL.: J. F. Foppens, Bibliotheca belgica, I, Brussels, 1739, pp. 170-73; J. F. Ossinger, Bibliotheca august, Ingolstadt 1768, pp. 524-29; Hutter, IV, coll. 521-28; A. Beugnet, Attrition, in DThC, I, II, coll. 2259-62; D. Dumoutet, Le désir de voir l'hostile et les origines de la dévotion au St-Sacrement, Paris 1926, pp. 95-96.

David Gutiérrez

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Lupus (De Wulf), Cristiano

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