VIATOR DA COCCAGLIO. - Capuchin theologian of the ancient province of Brescia, surnamed Bianchi, b. at Coccaglio on 20 April 1706, d. at Cologne on 18 Jan. 1792.
Having entered the novitiate of Vestone in Dec. 1724, he subsequently held various offices in the Order and from 1771 to 1774 was provincial minister. The fruit of his 40 years of teaching are: 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); Tentamina theologico-moralia (6 vols., Lucca 1778-80), in which he follows and defends the most probable opinion; Tentaminum theologico-um in moralibus synopsis (2 vols., Venice 1791). For this considerable activity he received particular praise from Clement XIV.
V. da C. occupies a place of the first rank in the doctrinal controversies of that era. A decided defender of Augustinianism in the questions then debated concerning Grace, the knowledge of God, predestination, etc., he deepened Augustinian doctrine by studying and popularizing in several monographs the doctrinal position of St. Prosper of Aquitaine (v.). He defended himself brilliantly against the accusation of Jansenism in the long and bitter controversy over the bull Unigenitus (v.), conducted against the former Jesuits L. Mozzi and A. Zaccaria. An opuscule against devotion to the Sacred Heart was also falsely attributed to him. He upheld with much erudition and valid arguments the rights of the Church and of the supreme pontiff against the errors and the supporters of Febronianism.
Bibliography6 workson the works: Barino da Milano, Bibliot. dei Frati Min. Capp. di Lombardia, Florence 1937, pp. 291-99. Literature: V. Bonari da Bergamo, Bio
BIBL.: on the works: Barino da Milano, Bibliot. dei Frati Min. Capp. di Lombardia, Florence 1937, pp. 291-99. Literature: V. Bonari da Bergamo, Biogr. e bibliogr. del p.V.B. da C., in Misc. Franc., 3 (1888), pp. 139-43; id., I conventi ed i Cappuccini bresciani, Milan 1891, pp. 418-36; Hurter, V. 1, coll. 258-59; P. Godefroy, s. v. in DThC, XV, II, coll. 2836-42; Melchior a Pobladura, Hist. gener. Ord. Fr. Min. Capucc. III, Rome 1951, pp. 309, 316, 559 ff.; Lex. Capucc., Rome 1951, col. 1807.
Melchiorre da Pobladura. “Viatore da Coccaglio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, coll. 1355–1356. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954. https://azioneromana.com/article/viatore-da-coccaglio.
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Melchiorre da Pobladura. “Viatore da Coccaglio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954, coll. 1355–1356. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/viatore-da-coccaglio.
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@incollection{ec12_viatore_da_coccaglio,
author = {Melchiorre da Pobladura},
title = {Viatore da Coccaglio},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XII},
pages = {1355--1356},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1954},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/viatore-da-coccaglio}
}
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