PONTIUS, BASILIO (Legionensis, PONCE de LEÓN). - Augustinian theologian, b. at Granada on 6 Sept. 1596, d. at Salamanca on 28 Aug. 1629.

He taught theology in the Royal College of Alcalá and from 1608 gradually held the most important chairs at the University of Salamanca, of which he later was also chancellor (1620). On the arrival of Jansenius in the city, P. had sixty professors sign a decree of fidelity to the doctrines of St. Augustine and St. Thomas and published the volume: De tenenda ac docenda doctrina ss. Augustini et Thomae judicium (Salamanca 1627, Rome 1657).

He wrote, among other things, Tractatus de impedimentis matrimonii (Salamanca 1613, 1624), a classic work recast in: De Sacramento Matrimonii ll. XII (Brussels 1627, Lyon 1640, Venice 1645); De aquae et vini conversione in Sacramento Eucharistiae disputatio (Salamanca 1622); De Sacramento Confirmationis liber unicus (Louvain 1642); Relectio posthuma de Sacramento Confirmationis (Salamanca 1638, Louvain 1642). P. left several manuscripts preserved at the British Museum in London, at the National Library of Madrid and at the Angelica Library in Rome.

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: Hurter, III, coll. 890-92; N. Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana nova, I, Madrid 1783, pp. 204-205; Biblioteca libero-americana, VI, ibid. 1922, pp. 339-81.

Mario Gaspari

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