MATTHEW OF KRAKÓW. - Theologian and bishop, b. at Cracow around 1335, d. at Pisa on 5 March 1410. At the University of Prague he became magister artium (1367) and doctor of theology (ca. 1381). A celebrated orator, he was appointed synodal preacher by the archbishop of Prague. In 1295 he obtained the chair of theology at the new University of Heidelberg, of which the following year he also became rector.
Confessor of Robert, elected king of the Romans in 1400, M. of C. had to take part in the whole civil and religious life of the time; sent to Rome to consult Innocent VII on the modalities of Robert's coronation, he was elected bishop of Worms. Appointed cardinal by Gregory XII (1408), he refused the honor, certainly not for lack of attachment to the Roman party (this was in the midst of the Western Schism), which he defended at the Council of Pisa (1409).
A man of broad and varied culture, he left many works: Tractatus rationis et conscientiae de sumptione pabuli salutiferi corporis Domini nostri Iesu Christi (Mainz 1460); a golden little work, which had various reprints under different titles, in which priests and the faithful are urged to frequent use of the Eucharist and its conditions are established in terms that seem a happy anticipation of the decrees of Pius X; De squalore seu de praxi Curiae Romanae (Basel 1551); a dark picture of the conditions of the Church with a plan for reform; Speculum aureum de titulis beneficiorum (ibid. 1555). Numerous other writings have remained unpublished, e.g., Opus de praedestinatione, De consolatione theologiae, De officio antistitum, etc.
Bibliography6 worksTh. Sommerlad, Matthaeus von Krakau, Halle 1891; O. Schmitz, Zu Matthaeus von Krakau, in Römische Quartalschrift, 8 (1894), pp. 502-505; G.
BIBL.: Th. Sommerlad, Matthaeus von Krakau, Halle 1891; O. Schmitz, Zu Matthaeus von Krakau, in Römische Quartalschrift, 8 (1894), pp. 502-505; G. Sommerlad, Über den Verfasser und die Entstehungszeit der Traktate De squaloribus Curiae Romanae, in Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins, 57 (1903), pp. 417-33; J. Franke, Matthaeus von Krakau, sein Leben, sein Charakter und seine Schriften zur Kirchenreform, Greifswald 1910; M. Grabmann, Storia della teologia cattolica, trad. it., 2nd ed., Milan 1939, p. 166; H. Jedin, Storia del Concilio di Trento, I, Brescia 1949, p. 18.
Piolanti, Antonio. “Matteo di Cracovia.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, col. 498. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/matteo-di-cracovia.
MLA
Piolanti, Antonio. “Matteo di Cracovia.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 498. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/matteo-di-cracovia.
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author = {Piolanti, Antonio},
title = {Matteo di Cracovia},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VIII},
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address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/matteo-di-cracovia}
}
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