MENDEZ DE SAN JUAN, JOSÉ. - Minim, moral theologian, b. in Madrid in 1605, d. there on 17 July 1680. He was successively lecturer in dogmatic and moral theology. Qualifier of the Holy Inquisition at Valencia, visitor general of all the libraries of Spain, provincial of Castile for his Order, he was also often a consultant to the King.

He published an entire course of moral theology (6 vols., Madrid 1641-78), to which he added: Praxis theologiae mysticae (ibid. 1674). There are still preserved in manuscript: a complete course of philosophy and another of dogmatic theology; a treatise on frequent and daily Communion; questions on the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, De statu religioso, etc.

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BIBL.: N. Antonius, Bibliotheca Hispana Nova, I, 2nd ed., Madrid 1783, p. 810; Biographia ecclesiastica completa, XIII, ibid. 1862, pp. 783-84; G. Roberti, Disegno storico dell'Ordine dei Minimi, II, Rome 1909, pp. 656-57; G. Moretti, Acta Capitul. Gen. M., I, Rome 1916, pp. 412, 425, 467.

Gennaro Moretti

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Mendez de San Juan, José

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