VIATOR of COCCAGLIO. — Capuchin theologian of the ancient province of Brescia, surnamed Bianchi, born at Coccaglio on 20 April 1706, died at Cologne on 18 January 1792.
Having entered the novitiate at Vestone in December 1724, he subsequently held various offices in the Order and was Minister Provincial from 1771 to 1774. The fruit of his forty years of teaching is seen in the *Tentamina theologico-scholastica* (6 vols., Bergamo 1768–71), in which he gives a prominent place to positive theology; the work was abridged for use in schools (*Tentaminum scholasticorum synopsis*, 2 vols., Venice 1782); the *Tentamina theologico-moralia* (6 vols., Lucca 1778–80), in which he follows and defends probabiliorism; and the *Tentaminum theologicorum in moralibus synopsis* (2 vols., Venice 1791). For this notable activity he received special praise from Clement XIV.
V. da C. occupies a foremost place in the doctrinal controversies of his time. A staunch defender of Augustinianism in the then-debated questions of grace, the knowledge of God, predestination, etc., he deepened the Augustinian doctrine by studying and disseminating in several monographs the doctrinal position of St Prosper of Aquitaine (v.). He brilliantly defended himself against the absolute disquisition in the long and bitter controversy over the bull *Unigenitus* (v.), conducted against the ex-Jesuits L. Mozzi and A. Zaccaria. He was also falsely credited with a pamphlet against devotion to the Sacred Heart. With great erudition and valid arguments he upheld the rights of the Church and the Supreme Pontiff against the errors and partisans of Febronianism.
In the inscription of Vincentius on the exterior of the arch, the words *manduca, Vibe, lude* were interpreted by F. Cumont (Les mystères de Sabazius et le judaïsme, in *Comptes rendus de l'Acad. des inscr. et belles-lettres*, 1906, pp. 63–79) in a moral sense, while M. P. Nilsson recently gave them a more materialistic meaning (A propos du tombeau de Vincentius, in *Mélanges Charles Picard*, II, Paris 1949, pp. 764–69). E. Stevenson pointed out that not far from this arch solid inscriptions and a cubiculum had been found, with a depiction of Christ surrounded by four orants on the vault; this cubiculum was later seen by Wilpert and recently rediscovered. Perhaps this cemetery region should also be connected with the hypogeum discovered nearby in 1915, called “of the hunters” for the hunting scenes painted in it and likewise bearing Christian inscriptions.