VIVES Y TUTÓ, GIUSEPPE CALASANZIO. – Capuchin theologian and cardinal, born at S. Andrés de Llevancras (Barcellona) on 5 February 1854; died at Monteporzio Catone on 7 September 1913.
Ordained a priest in 1877, he was elected visitor and superior general in 1894, definitor general in 1896 and, in 1899, cardinal. Having arrived in Rome as early as 1884, he was appointed to various Congregations and to the commissions for biblical studies and for the codification of canon law. In 1896 he examined, together with the other consultors, the validity of Anglican Ordinations. In 1898 he was appointed theological consultor to the preparatory commission of the Plenary Council of Latin America, of which he later became a dynamic promoter and honorary president from the day of his elevation to the cardinalate.
He strongly advocated the advancement and reorganization of ecclesiastical studies. A man of exceptional capacity for work, he synthesized the most important branches of ecclesiastical science in admirable compendia, repeatedly reprinted and translated: Compendium theologiae moralis (Barcellona 1881); Compendium theologiae dogmaticae (there 1882); Compendium iuris canonici (there 1882); Compendium hermeneuticae sacrae (there 1883); Compendium theologiae ascetico-mysticae (there 1886). His spiritual writings, rich in theological doctrine, through which he propagated devotion to the Eucharist, the Sacred Heart, the Madonna and s. Giuseppe, achieved a deserved diffusion. His name and activity remain connected with the policies of the pontificate of b. Pio X, who found in him a capable and faithful collaborator.
Antonio de Barcelona, El card. V. y el Conc. plen. lat.-amer., in Estud. francisc., 12 (1914), pp. 39-44; id., El card. V. T., su sida y su influencia, Barcellona 1916; J. B. de Ardales, La Divina Pastora y el b. Diego José de Cádiz, I, Siviglia 1949, pp. 414-448; Melchior a Pobladura, Hist. gener. Ord. Min. Capucc., III, Roma 1951, pp. 228-30, 670-71; Lex Capucc., Roma 1951, col. 1829 ff.