Ambrosius Catharinus

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Ambrosius Catharinus (actually Lancelotto Politi , also Ambroise Catharin Politi ), (* around 1484 in Siena , † November 8, 1553 in Naples ) was an Italian canon , Dominican (OP) , theologian , university professor and archbishop of Conza .

Live and act

He was the son of Bernardino Politi; he had two verifiable brothers Tommaso and Gimbattista. At the age of sixteen he received his doctorate in utroque iure from the University of Siena . After attending many other academies in Italy and France, he was appointed university lecturer in Siena, his hometown, in 1508. His best-known students were Giovanni del Monte , who later became Pope Julius III, and Sixtus Senensis (1520–1569), a converted Jew who was loyal to his teacher but sharply criticized him for some of his writings.

Around 1517, under the influence of the ideas of Girolamo Savonarola, he entered the Order of St. Dominic in the Monastery of San Marco in Florence . There he continued his theological studies independently . This speaks for his independent thinking. So he defended predestination , God's foreknowledge and predestination, but rejected predestination for damnation . He also defended the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary .

Catharinus is considered a strict defender of Catholicism against Martin Luther , whom and whose followers he viewed as a heretic . Catharinus was very involved in the discussions at the Council of Trent . On the third day, Thursday, February 4, 1546, Catharinus represented a remarkable position of the Counter-Reformation in the public session , which was later published as "Oratio ad Patres Concilii Tridentini" (Leuven, 1567; Paris, 1672).

Despite the attacks on his teaching, he was made Bishop of Minori in 1546 and Archbishop of Conza , in the province of Naples , in 1552 . He died in Naples.

Works (selection)

  • Apologia pro veritate catholicæ et apostolicæ fldei ac doctrinæ, adversus impia ac pestifera Martini Lutheri dogmata. Florence 1520
  • Speculum hæreticorum. Lyon 1541 ( digitized )
  • Annotationes in commentaria Cajetani super sacram Scripturam. Lyon 1542
  • Tractatus quæstionis quo jure episcoporum residentia debeatur. Venice 1547
  • Defensio catholicorum pro possibili certitudine gratiæ. Venice 1547
  • Es bonus corripuit editor ad hoc intendere usus invexit errorem. Rome 1548
  • Summa doctrinæ de prædestinatione. Rome 1550
  • Commentaria in omnes D. Pauli epistolas et alias septem canonicas. Venice 1551
  • Disputatio pro veritate immaculatæ conceptionis B. Virginis. Rome 1551

literature

  • Josef Schweizer: Ambrosius Catharinus Politus (1484–1553): a theologian of the Reformation age: his life and his writings. Aschendorff bookstore, Münster i. W. 1910 [1]
  • Quétif-Échard: Script. Ord. Praed., II Paris, 1721, 144;
  • Antoine Touron: Histoire des hommes illustres de l'Ordre de S. Dom. IV, Paris. 1747, 128;
  • Pallavicini: Hist. Conc. Trid .: De int. Ministri, De Resid. epis. Antwerp 1670; Cologne 1717, 1727
  • Sixtus Senensis: Bibliotheca Sancta. Bks. IV, V, VI, Venice 1566
  • Friedrich Lauchert: The polemic of Ambrosius Catharinus against Bernardino Ochino. Journal of Catholic Theology, Vol. 31, No. 1 (1907), pp. 23-50
  • Konrad Hammann : Ecclesia spiritualis: Luther's understanding of the church in the controversies with Augustin von Alveldt and Ambrosius Catharinus. Vol. 44 Research on Church and Dogma History, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 978-3-5255-5151-6 , p. 146.
  • Patrick Preston: Ambrosius Catharinus. Polemic and the Politics of Religion in Italy, 1541–1553 , London: Taylor and Francis 2019, ISBN 9780754656036 .

Web links

Wikisource: Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) / Lancelot Politi  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the information on his date of birth varies, from 1485 to 1487
  2. ↑ CATHARINUS, AMBROSIUS (1487–1553) Iglesia Evangélica Pueblo Nuevo c / Villacarlos, 14 28032 - Madrid
  3. ^ Josef Schweizer: Ambrosius Catharinus Politus (1484–1553): a theologian of the Reformation age: his life and his writings. Aschendorff bookstore, Münster i. W. 1910, p. 6
  4. ↑ Catharinus is a Gräzisierung of ital. Polito ( "pure").
  5. ↑ others speak of the year 1513
  6. ↑ Catharinus Ambrosius, /www.biblicaltraining.org
  7. ^ "Apologia pro veritate catholicæ et apostolicæ fldei ac doctrinæ, adversus impia ac pestifera Martini Lutheri dogmata" (Florence 1520)
personal data
SURNAME Catharinus, Ambrosius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lancelotto Politi, Ambroise Catharin Politi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian theologian, author, Dominican monk, university professor, archbishop
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1484
PLACE OF BIRTH Siena
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1553
Place of death Naples