Also known as:
Spanish: Alonso de Orozco;
Latin: Alphonsus de Orozco
OROZCO, Alfonso de, Blessed. - Augustinian, ascetical writer, b. at Oropesa (Toledo) on 17 Oct. 1500, d. at Madrid on 19 Sept. 1591. From 1530 to 1554 he was superior at Soria, Medina, Seville, Granada and Valladolid; preacher to Charles V from 1554 and then to Philip II. His intense apostolate earned him, among the King and the people, a reputation for sanctity on account of his zeal, his penitential life and his works of charity.
He wrote many works in classical Castilian prose; worthy of remembrance: Fergel de oración y monte de contemplación (Seville 1544); Desposorio espiritual (ibid. 1551); Regimiento del alma (Valladolid 1551); Las siete palabras de la Virgen (ibid. 1556); Victoria del mundo (ibid. 1565); Arte de amar a Dios y al próximo (ibid. 1568); De la suavidad de Dios (ibid. 1576); La corona de N. Señora (ibid. 1588); etc. In Latin: Bonum certamen (ibid. 1562); Regalis institutio (Alcalá 1565).
Bibliography6 worksLeonis XIII Acta, II, Rome 1882, pp. 374-84; T. Cámara, Vida y escritos del b. A. de O., Valladolid 1882 (the best biographical-doctrinal st
BIBL.: Leonis XIII Acta, II, Rome 1882, pp. 374-84; T. Cámara, Vida y escritos del b. A. de O., Valladolid 1882 (the best biographical-doctrinal study); G. de Santiago Vela, Ensayo de una biblioteca ibero-americana de la Orden de s. Augustin, VI, Madrid 1925, pp. 96-169; J. A. Fariña, Doctrina de la oración del b. A. de O., Barcelona 1927; I. Monasterio, Místicos agost. españoles, I, El Escorial 1929, pp. 144-66; L. Herrán, La maternidad espiritual de María en la doctrina del b. A. de O., in Estudios marianos, 7 (1948), pp. 433-75.
Gutierrez, David. “Orozco, alfonso de, beato.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, coll. 368–369. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/orozco-alfonso-de-beato.
MLA
Gutierrez, David. “Orozco, alfonso de, beato.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, coll. 368–369. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/orozco-alfonso-de-beato.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec9_orozco_alfonso_de_beato,
author = {Gutierrez, David},
title = {Orozco, alfonso de, beato},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IX},
pages = {368--369},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/orozco-alfonso-de-beato}
}
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