Francesco Silvestri (Ferrariensis) (b. at Ferrara about 1474; d. Ferrara is a city in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara. at Rennes, 19 September 1526) was an Italian Dominican theologian. Rennes ( Gallo: Resnn, Roazhon Condate Condate Riedonum is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern Events 335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I. The Order of Preachers ( Latin: Ordo Praedicatorum) after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is
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Life
At the age of fourteen he joined the Dominican Order. In 1516 he was made a master in theology. He was prior first in his native city and then at Bologna, and in the provincial chapter held at Milan in 1519 he was chosen Vicar-General of the Lombard congregation of his order. Bologna (boloɲa from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in Bolognese dialect is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy A vicar general (often abbreviated VG) is the principal deputy of the bishop of a diocese for the exercise of administrative authority
Having discharged this office for the allotted term of two years, he became regent of the college at Bologna where he remained for a considerable time. Later he was appointed by Pope Clement VII vicar-general of his entire order, and on 3 June, 1525, in the general chapter held at Rome, he was elected master general. For the Antipope (1378&ndash1394 see Antipope Clement VII. Pope Clement VII ( May 26, 1478 &ndash September The Master of the Order of Preachers is the worldwide leader of the Order of Preachers commonly known as the Dominicans.
As general of his order he visited nearly all the convents of Italy, France, and Belgium, restoring everywhere primitive fervor and discipline. He was planning to begin a visitation of the Spanish convents, when a fatal illness carried him away. Albert Leander, his traveling companion, tells us that he was a man of remarkable mental endowments, that nature seemed to have enriched him with all her gifts.
Works
Silvestri wrote many works, principal among which is his monumental Commentary on the Summa contra Gentiles of St. Thomas Aquinas (Paris, 1552), and also explanations of various books of Aristotle. Aristotle (Greek Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC was a Greek philosopher a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. In his forceful and elegant Apologia de convenientia institutorum Romanae Ecclesiae cum evangelica libertate (Rome, 1525), he defended the primacy and the organization of the Catholic Church against Martin Luther. Martin Luther (November 10 1483 February 18 1546 was a German Monk, theologian, university professor Father of Protestantism, and church reformer Some have erroneously attributed this work to Silvester Prierias. Sylvester Mazzolini, in Italian Silvestro Mazzolini da Prierio, in Latin Sylvester Prierias.
References
- Quétif-Échard, Script. Jacques Quétif (1618&ndash1698 was a French Dominican and noted bibliographer Jacques Échard (b 22 September 1644, Rouen &ndash d 15 March 1724, Paris) was a French Dominican and historian Ord. Praed. , II, 59 sq.
- Hugo von Hurter, Nomenclator
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| Preceded by García de Loaysa |
Master General of the Dominican Order 1524 – 1526 |
Succeeded by Paolo Butigella |
This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913. The von Hurter family belonged to the Swiss nobility in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries three of them were known for their conversions to Roman Catholicism Juan García de Loaysa y Mendoza (born 1478 was a Spanish Dominican friar from Talavera de la Reina near Toledo. The Master of the Order of Preachers is the worldwide leader of the Order of Preachers commonly known as the Dominicans. The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia
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