Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. XI, 1953 Apologetics

Spina, Alfonso López de

SPINA, ALFONSO LOPEZ DE

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Also known as: Spanish: Alfonso de la Espina; Latin: Alphonsus de Spina

SPINA, Alfonso López de. - Friar Minor, formerly a Jew, learned theologian, distinguished for piety and doctrine, effective preacher, rector of the Minorite Studium of Salamanca and bishop Thermopolitanus (1491); d. ca. 1491 in the Palentine convent of the province of the Conception.

One of his works enjoyed notable success, arranged to forearm the faithful against heretics, entitled Fortalitium fidei (Strasbourg s. a. [ca. 1471]; Basel s. a. [ca. 1475]; Nuremberg 1485, 1594, 1525; Lyon 1487 and 1511), judged "opus eruditum, splendido titulo, voce barbara, et divinarum rerum cognitione praestanti". He also left manuscripts: Sermones de excellentia nostrae fidei; Tractatus de fortuna dicatum Joanni Castellae Regi; Sermones 22 de nomine Jem.

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: Wadding, Scriptores, p. 14; Sharalea, pp. 26-30; A. Teetsert, Spina (Alphonse de), in DThC, XIV, II, coll. 2477-79.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI (1953), col. 1122.

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Felice da Mareto. “Spina, alfonso lopez de.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, col. 1122. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/spina-alfonso-lopez-de.

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Felice da Mareto. “Spina, alfonso lopez de.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 1122. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/spina-alfonso-lopez-de.

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  author    = {Felice da Mareto},
  title     = {Spina, alfonso lopez de},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {XI},
  pages     = {1122},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1953},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/spina-alfonso-lopez-de}
}

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