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RIBADENEIRA, PEDRO A

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RIBADENEIRA, PEDRO A . {1527-1611), hagiologist, was See also:born at See also:Toledo on the 1st of See also:November 1527. As a lad he repaired to See also:Rome for study, and there on the 18th,of See also:September 1540 was admitted by See also:Ignatius See also:Loyola, in his thirteenth See also:year, as one of the Society of Jesus, which had not yet received papal See also:sanction. He' pursued his studies at See also:Paris (1542) in See also:philosophy and See also:theology. Loyola, in 1555, sent him on a See also:mission' to See also:Belgium; in pursuance of it he visited See also:England in 1558. A later result of his visit was his Historia E'cclesiastica del scisma del Reyno de Inglaterra (1588-1594), often reprinted, and used in later See also:editions of N. Sander's De Origine et Progressu Schismatis See also:Anglican. In 156o he was made Provincial of the Society of Jesus in See also:Tuscany, thence transferred as Provincial to See also:Sicily in 1563, again employed in See also:Flanders, and from 1571 in See also:Spain. In 1574 he settled in See also:Madrid, where he died on the loth of September 1611. His most important See also:work is the See also:Life of Loyola (1572), which he was the first to write. In his first edition of the Life, as also in the second enlarged issue (1587), Ribadeneira affirmed that Loyola had wrought no See also:miracle, except the See also:foundation of his Society (thus making his claim parallel with that of See also:Mahomet, whose only miracle, originally, was the See also:Koran). In the See also:process for the See also:canonization of Loyola, a narrative published by Ribadeneira in 1609 exhibited miracles; and these are recorded in an abridgment of the Life by Ribadeneira (published posthumously in 1612) with a statement by Ribadeneira that he had known of them in 1572 but was not then satisfied of their See also:proof.

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change of See also:opinion he is taken to task by See also:Bayle. That Ribadeneira was, though an able, a very credulous writer, is shown by his lives of the successors of Loyola in the See also:general-See also:ship of the Society, Lainez and See also:Borgia; and especially by his Flos Sanctorum (1599-1610), a collection of See also:saints' lives, entirely superseded by the labours of the See also:Bollandists. His other See also:works are numerous but of little moment, including his Tratado de la See also:religion (1595), intended as a refutation of See also:Machiavelli's See also:Prince. See his autobiography in his Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu (1602 and 16o8„ supplemented by P.Alegambe and N.Sotwell in 1676) ; N. See also:Antonio, Biotheca Hispana Nova (1788) ; Biographie Universelle (See also:Michaud) (1842-1865). (A.

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