RIBADENEIRA, PEDRO A

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RIBADENEIRA, PEDRO A . {1527-1611), hagiologist, was born at Toledo on the 1st of November 1527. As a lad he repaired to Rome for study, and there on the 18th,of September 1540 was admitted by

Ignatius

IGNATIUS ('Iyvfrior)

Loyola, in his thirteenth year, as one of the Society of Jesus, which had not yet received papal sanction. He' pursued his studies at Paris (1542) in philosophy and theology. Loyola, in 1555, sent him on a mission' to Belgium; in pursuance of it he visited 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 editions of N. Sander's De Origine et Progressu Schismatis

Anglican

ANGLICAN

. In 156o he was made Provincial of the Society of Jesus in Tuscany, thence transferred as Provincial to Sicily in 1563, again employed in

Flanders

FLANDERS (Flem. Vlaanderen)

, and from 1571 in Spain. In 1574 he settled in Madrid, where he died on the loth of September 1611. His most important

work

WORK

is the

Life

LIFE

of Loyola (1572), which he was the first to write. In his first edition of the

Life

LIFE

, as also in the second enlarged issue (1587), Ribadeneira affirmed that Loyola had wrought no miracle, except the foundation of his Society (thus making his claim parallel with that of

Mahomet

MAHOMET (strictly MUHAMMAD, commonly also MOHAMMED)

, whose only miracle, originally, was the Koran). In the process for the 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 proof. For this

change

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. 冠 urmu', to bend)

opinion

OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

he is taken to task by Bayle. That Ribadeneira was, though an able, a very credulous writer, is shown by his lives of the successors of Loyola in the general-ship of the Society, Lainez and

Borgia

; and especially by his Flos Sanctorum (1599-1610), a collection of saints' lives, entirely superseded by the labours of the Bollandists. His other works are numerous but of little moment, including his Tratado de la religion (1595), intended as a refutation of

Machiavelli

MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO (1469-1527)

's Prince.
See his autobiography in his Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu (1602 and 16o8 supplemented by P.Alegambe and N.Sotwell in 1676) ; N. Antonio, Biotheca Hispana Nova (1788) ; Biographie Universelle (Michaud) (1842-1865). (A. Go.*)

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