SPADA, MARIANO. - Dominican theologian, b. at Acireale on 1 January 1796, d. at Rome on 15 November 1873.

A religious at Taormina, he was regent of studies at the College of St. Thomas in Rome, a member of several general masters, master of the Sacred Palace (1867-72) and bishop of Girgenti (1867). A keen theologian and of vast erudition, he was greatly esteemed by Gregory XVI and by Pius IX. A consultor of various Roman Congregations, his many occupations did not allow him to write much; he nevertheless left: L'esame critico sulla dottrina dell'Angelico Dottore s. Tommaso d'Aquino circa il peccato originale relativamente alla B. V. Maria (Naples 1835); Animadversiones in opus I. B. Malou de dogmate Immaculatae Conceptionis B. Mariae Virginis (Rome 1862); Purgatorio dei reprobi sostenuto dal sac. Vincenzo de Vit (ibid. 1864).

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BIBL.: Acta cap. gen. O. P., Rome 1886, pp. 85-86; A. G. Sesta, Del p. M. S., in Il Rosario: Memorie domenicane, 27 (1910), pp. 484-94; I. Taurisano, Hierarchia O. P., Rome 1916, pp. 62, 108; A. Andaloro, Il P. M. S., in Memorie domenicane, 68 (1951), pp. 160-81.

Alfonso D'Amato

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