CESARIO SHGUANIN. — Theologian of the Order of the Servants of Mary, born at Schöntal on 11 June 1692, died at Rome on 4 February 1769. He entered the religious life at the convent of Frohnleiten in Styria on 25 June 1713 and was ordained priest on 19 September 1716. He served as professor of philosophy and theology first at Innsbruck, then at Rome in the Gandavense College, near S. Marcello al Corso.
He left many writings of a philosophical, juridical, hagiographical, ascetical, and historical nature. Among the most noteworthy are: *Epitome scientiae animasticae seu assertiones philosophicae de praecipua microcosmi parte, nempe de anima rationali* (Innsbruck 1724); *De anatomia probabilismi* (ibid. 1725, reprinted later in Germany and twice in Rome); *Arcanum tribunal poenitentiae* (Regensburg 1730); *Scientia Sanctorum* (in German, published in Vienna in 1736, later translated by the author into Latin and published in Rome in 1759); *Manuale clericorum saecularium*, and various other pamphlets published at different times. He left other unpublished volumes, mostly preserved in the General Archive of the Order, among which are noteworthy: *Processus ab orbe condito novi et maximi* (4 vols.); *Libri duodecim relationum super mysterio de universali reformatione* (9 vols. in-folio); *Vita, passio et triumphus Mariae sine labe conceptae et Sanctissimae Dei Genitricis* (4 vols. in-folio); *Opus universalis reformationis* (7 vols. in-folio); *Opus pro resuscitanda fide ad vitam*.
For about eight years he served as confessor and director of the monastery of the Servite Nuns of Munich, where various extraordinary events occurred, which he recounted in the *Processus*. He went to Rome in 1736 and remained there until his death. He had been created a cardinal, but the appointment was reserved *in pectore*. In 1762, he was the first to request from Pope Clement XIII the dogmatic definition of the bodily Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.