MACEDO, FRANCISCO. - Franciscan friar, theologian, also called "from St. Augustine." Born in Coimbra in 1596, died in Padua on May 19, 1681. Entered the Society of Jesus in 1610, later transferring (1642) to the Reformed Franciscans and from them (1645) to the Observant Franciscans.
In his homeland, he supported the House of Braganza and was appointed Latin chronicler by King John IV of Portugal. He also served as preacher and advisor to Queen Anna of France. Called to Rome by Alexander VII, he taught theology at the College of Propaganda Fide and ecclesiastical history at the Sapienza, and held curial offices. A man of strong and encyclopedic intellect but of eccentric disposition, he engaged in notable public disputes in Rome and Venice: in the latter city, after a seven-day disputation *de omni re scibili*, he was granted honorary citizenship. For many years, he also held the chair of moral philosophy at the University of Padua.
He published over a hundred works—marked by great erudition but little critical spirit—reviewed by him in *Myrothecium* (Padua 1675), and left many unpublished. Among his works are: *Cortina d. Augustini de praedestinatione et gratia* (Paris 1648), against Jansenism; *De clavibus Petri* (Rome 1660); *Scholae theologicae positivae* (ibid. 1664); *Collationes s. Thomae et Scoti* (3 vols., Padua 1671-80), his principal work.