Tolomei, John Baptist

Tolomei, John Baptist
Tolomei, John Baptist
Jesuit theologian and cardinal (1653-1726)

Catholic Encyclopedia. . 2006.

Tolomei, John Baptist
     Catholic_Encyclopedia John Baptist Tolomei
    A distinguished Jesuit theologian and Cardinal, born of noble parentage, at Camberaia, between Pistoia and Florence, 3 Dec., 1653; died at Rome in the Roman College, 19 Jan., 1726, and was buried before the high altar of the Church of Saint Ignatius. At the age of fifteen, after an early schooling at Florence, he studied law at the University of Pisa; on 18 Feb., 1673, he entered the Society of Jesus at Rome. He was master of eleven languages, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Illyrian, and Italian. He began his public career at Rome by expounding the Sacred Scriptures on Sunday evenings in the Church of the Gesù. At the age of thirty he was elected in the General Congregation of the Jesuits as the procurator general of the order, which office he held for five years, relinquishing it to take the chair of philosophy at the Roman College. Here his lecture-room was thronged. His lectures were printed at Rome in 1696 under the title of "Philosophia mentis et sensuum", and demonstrated that, while loyal to the principles and method of Aristotle, he welcomed every discovery of his time in the natural sciences and wove these into his course. The lectures were reprinted in 1698 in Germany and evoked the warmest encomiums from the Academy of Leipzig as well as from Leibniz. He later filled the chair of theology at the Roman College (now the Gregorian University) and renewed the courses in controversial dogma begun by Bellarmine a century before. These lectures in MS. filled six volumes in folio but were never printed. Successively Rector of the Roman College and of the German College, he was at the same time Consultor of the Congregations of Rites, of the Index, and of Indulgences, as well as being one of the appointed examiners of bishops. On 17 May, 1712, unexpectedly created Cardinal by Clement XI, under the title of Santo Stefano in Monte Cœlio, he became chief adviser to the pontiff in matters theological, particularly in the preparation of the condemnation of the errors of Quesnel. As Cardinal he assisted at the conclaves which elected Innocent XIII and Benedict XIII. His published works are the "Philosophia mentis et sensuum" (with the addition of natural theology and ethics, Rome, 1702), "De primatu beati Petri" (in the second series of the miscellany printed from the manuscripts in the library of the Roman College, Rome, 1867), and a little pamphlet containing "Daily Prayers for a Happy Death" (in Latin, Vienna, 1742; also in German, Augsburg, 1856).
    HURTER, Nomenclator literarius, IV (Innsbruck, 1910); SOMMERVOGEL, Biblioth que de la compagnie de J sus, VIII (Brussels, 1898).
    CHARLES MACKSEY
    Transcribed by Douglas J. Potter Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIII. — New York: Robert Appleton Company. . 1910.


Catholic encyclopedia.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • John Baptist Tolomei —     John Baptist Tolomei     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► John Baptist Tolomei     A distinguished Jesuit theologian and Cardinal, born of noble parentage, at Camberaia, between Pistoia and Florence, 3 Dec., 1653; died at Rome in the Roman College,… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Liste der Kanonisationen — Die Liste der Kanonisationen führt chronologisch die Heiligsprechungen seit 1588 durch die Päpste auf. Die Liste ist nicht vollständig. Am 22. Januar 1588 schuf Papst Sixtus V. mit dem Apostolische Konstitution Immensa Aeterni Dei die Heilige… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • List of saints — This article is about Christian saints after 450 AD. For Christian saints before this time, see List of early Christian saints. For a list of venerated persons in Mahayana Buddhism, see List of bodhisattvas. This is an incomplete list of… …   Wikipedia

  • Distinguished Jesuits —     Distinguished Jesuits     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Distinguished Jesuits     Saints:     ♦ Ignatius Loyola;     ♦ Francis Xavier;     ♦ Francis Borgia;     ♦ Stanislaus Kostka;     ♦ Alfonso Rodriguez;     ♦ Juan de Castillo;     ♦ John… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • List of Jesuit theologians — This is a list of Jesuit theologians, in other words of Roman Catholic theological writers from the Society of Jesus.Source: The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913, article list and textual allusions, for theologians up to the beginning of the… …   Wikipedia

  • Ptolemy (name) — The name Ptolemy or Ptolemaeus comes from the Greek Ptolemaios , which means warlike. There have been many people named Ptolemy or Ptolemaeus, the most famous of which are the Greek Egyptian astronomer Claudius Ptolemaeus and the Macedonian… …   Wikipedia

  • Christian views on alcohol — Jesus making wine from water in The Marriage at Cana, a 14th century fresco from the Visoki Dečani monastery. Christian views on alcohol are varied. Throughout the first 1,800 years of church history, Christians consumed alcoholic beverages as …   Wikipedia

  • Lake Zurich, Illinois — Geobox|Settlement name = Lake Zurich native name = other name = category = Village etymology = official name = Lake Zurich motto = nickname = image caption = symbol = country = United States state = Illinois region = Lake region type = County… …   Wikipedia

  • The opera corpus — is a list of nearly 2,500 works by more than 775 individual opera composers. Some of the works listed below are still being performed today   but many are not. The principal works of the major composers are given as well as those of historical… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”