OLIDEN, GASPAR (DE). - Theatine theologian and ascetical writer, b. at Elgoibar (Guipúzcoa, in Spain), d. ca. 1740. He made his religious profession at Madrid on 6 Jan. 1683. After teaching theology at the University of Salamanca, he lived for many years in Italy, devoted to the sacred ministry. He distinguished himself in spreading devotion toward the souls of the faithful departed through the practice of the "heroic vow or act (v.) of charity."

Pius IX, in the brief of 30 Sept. 1852, attributes its institution to O., recalling the approval that Benedict XIII had given to the vow (23 Aug. 1728) and its confirmation, together with the related indulgences, by Pius VI (11 Dec. 1788). In 1725 he was appointed first provost of the Theatine house of Palma de Mallorca, where he moved in 1726, after having given a series of conferences on Purgatory in the presence of Benedict XIII, who liked to call him the "procurator of Purgatory." He enjoys the title of venerable in his Order. He wrote Dialogos del Purgatorio (Alcalá 1732).

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BIBL.: Regnum Dei. Collectanea Theatina, 4 (1945), pp. 133-161; 13-14 (1948), pp. 144-61; J. B. Vedell, Voto de animas, in Lux y vida, Oct.-Nov. 1941, pp. 137-42; A. Veny, Acto heroico de las Teatinas, in Providencia, 1947, p. 236.

Francesco Andreu

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Oliden, Gaspar (de)

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