MUNCUNILL Y PARELLADA, Juan. – Jesuit, theologian, b. at Fals (Barcelona) on 10 Sept. 1848, d. at Barcelona on 23 Jan. 1928.
Having entered the Society of Jesus in 1867, he taught for many years philosophy and theology in various houses of study of the Order, at Valencia, Veruela, Tortosa, Sarrià; freed from teaching duties in 1912, he devoted himself to preparing for publication his theological lectures. Thus appeared: De Verbi Divini incarnatione (Madrid 1905), which revealed him as a faithful disciple of St Thomas and Suárez, a writer of great clarity and completeness, and which was judged a most useful work for the classroom, preaching, and catechesis; it nevertheless lacked a certain breadth, though necessary, in the modern positive section; he remedied this in the following works: De vera religione (Barcelona 1909), De Christi Ecclesia (ibid. 1914), De locis theologicis (ibid. 1916); De Deo uno et trino (ibid. 1918); De Deo creatore et de Novissimis (ibid. 1922); De Gratia Christi (ibid. 1927), in which, however, biblical exegesis is not yet as developed as is usually added. Later the treatise was printed: Eximius doctor P. Suarez, fidelis s. Thomae discipulus (cf. F. Solà, Un trabajo inédito del p. J. M., in Estudios eclesiásticos, 22 [1948], pp. 509-48).