Trigoso, Pietro da Calatayud

TRIGOSO, PIETRO da CALATAYUD. - Capuchin theologian, b. at Calatayud (province of Saragossa) in June 1533, d. at Naples on 20 July 1593.

He studied at the Universities of Salamanca and Alcalá de Henares, entered the Jesuits on 15 Dec. 1556 and professed on 2 May 1568; he was professor of arts and theology and a preacher at Alcalá, Toledo, Medina del Campo; sent to Antwerp (1570-77), as superior he consolidated the Society in the Netherlands. During a journey from Spain to Rome (1580-81) he entered the Capuchin novitiate of Tabano (Jesi). He distinguished himself as a preacher; while keeping Lent at Ancona (1583) he established an orphanage there. The fruit of his teaching in the studium generale of Bologna, from 1585, is the S. Bonaventurae summa theologica (vol. I, part 1: De Deo uno, Rome 1593, 1613; 2nd ed. rev., Lyon 1686; death halted him at the manuscript of vol. II: De Deo trino). He was the initiator of the commentaries on the doctrine of St. Bonaventure; but rather than acting as a Bonaventurian theologian, he acted as a leveller of the thought of the Seraphic Doctor to that of St. Thomas; a conciliatory tendency that prevailed in the Bonaventurian school of the theologians of the Order during the 17th century. To this work he joined a Summa sive seminarium rerum praedicabilium (also printed separately, Paris 1612-13). At Naples, after 1587, he devoted himself to the religious assistance of the Spanish colony, established the R. Reclusorio della Solitaria di Palazzo for Spanish orphans or those of Spanish origin; he organized the Monte della Misericordia with appropriate regulations.

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