Valerian of Magnis

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Valerian von Magnis, around 1624, National Museum Warsaw

Valerian von Magnis , OFMCap, (born October 15, 1586 in Milan as Maximilian de Magni ; † July 29, 1661 in Salzburg ) was Provincial of the Austro-Bohemian Order of the Capuchin Province and diplomat .

Life

His parents, who both came from a merchant family in Milan, were Constantin von Magnis (1527–1606), imperial privy councilor in Vienna, and Octavia (around 1562– after 1616), daughter of Giovanni Paolo Carcassola. In 1588 the family moved to Prague, where his brother Franz was born in 1598 .

Maximilian von Magnis entered the Capuchin Order in Prague in 1602 and took the first name Valerian ( Valerianus a Milano ). After his ordination he became a well-known preacher and philosophical lecturer and achieved the emperor's benevolence through his teaching. He soon became Provincial of the Austro-Bohemian Order Province and also acted as an adviser to the Emperor and other European princes. In 1616 the Polish King Sigismund III transferred him . the Capuchin Mission in his country. In 1621 Emperor Ferdinand II sent him to France on a diplomatic mission. From 1622 to 1623 he was one of the advisors of Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria and obtained support for him in Paris for the Bavarian electoral dignity . After the Battle of the White Mountains , he supported the Prague Archbishop Ernst Adalbert von Harrach in re-Catholicizing the population and in diocesan reforms from 1623 to 1634 . On behalf of the emperor, he took part in negotiations with Cardinal Richelieu about the succession in Mantua in 1630 . In 1635 he worked as a theological expert in the negotiations for the Peace of Prague and from 1645 as an apostolic missionary for Electoral Saxony , Hesse , Brandenburg and Danzig . 1650–1652 he achieved the conversion of Landgrave Ernst von Hessen-Rheinfeld and his wife.

After the University of Prague was transferred to the Jesuits in 1623 , he took a negative attitude towards the Jesuits, as a result of which he wrote a pamphlet against them in 1661. He was then arrested in Vienna. At the intercession of high-ranking personalities, he was released from prison and withdrew to Salzburg. There he died in the same year.

Works

  • De luce mentium (1642)
  • Principia et specimen philosophiae (1652)
  • Opus philosophicum (1660)
  • Acta disputationis habitae Rheinfelsae apud S. Goarem (1652)
  • Christiana et catholica defensio, Adversum Societatem Jesu haeresi vel atheismo infectam (1661)

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SURNAME Magnis, Valerian of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Magnis, Maximilian von (maiden name); Magni, Valerius of; Milano, Valerianus a
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Provincial of the Austrian-Bohemian Order Province of the Capuchins
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1586
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1661
Place of death Salzburg