MAURICE OF PORTO (Mauritius de Portu, Hibernus). - Philosopher and theologian, in the world M. O'Fihely, b. ca. 1460 in Ireland (uncertain whether at Baltimore or at Clonfert), d. in 1513 at Galway. He studied at Oxford and entered the Order of Friars Minor. Regent of the Studium generale of Milan from 1488, in 1491 he was assigned to the University of Padua, where he was still teaching theology in 1500. In 1506 he was consecrated archbishop of Tuam and as such took part in the Fifth Lateran Council.

His thought develops in the wake of Duns Scotus, some of whose works he published and commented upon. In a brief Enchyridion fidei (Venice 1509) he set out schematically his thought concerning the contingency of things, divine foreknowledge, free will and predestination.

Principal works: Epilomata castigationum atque elucidationum in quaestiones metaph., tractatum de primo principio et theoremata Scott (Venice 1499); Expositio in quaest. dialecticae Johan. Scott (ibid. 1512).

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BIBL.: Burke, The archbishop of Tuam, Dublin 1882; A. Little, The Grey Friars in Oxford, Oxford 1892, pp. 267-68.

Enzo Maccagnolo

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Maurice of Porto (Mauritius de Portu, Hibernus)

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