Thomas of Jesus
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Thomas of Jesus OAD, (Lisbon, 1529 – Morocco, April 17, 1582), also known as Tome de Jesus and Tomé de Andrade, was a reformer and preacher, instrumental in creating the Discalced Augustinians.[1]
Life
Thomas of Andrada was born in Lisbon in 1529, and "belonged to one of the most illustrious house of Portugal".[2] Thomas joined the Order of Saint Augustine at the age of fifteen and took the religious name Thomas of Jesus. His attempts to reform the order met with little success as his zeal for a stricter observance only raised violent opposition and hardship for himself, and he was forced to desist. Nonetheless, after his death the regulations he had proposed were later adopted by those Augustinians who formed the discalced branch.
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Works
His main work, Os Trabalhos de Jesus, is a mystical text consisting of contemplations on the sufferings of Jesus. He wrote it while a captive in Morocco. The book was published between 1602 and 1609, and was translated into several languages, including Latin, Spanish, English, and German. Thomas of Jesus wrote the Latin treatise De contemplatione divina libri VI ("Six books on the divine contemplation"), firstly published at Cologne in 1684[3]
References
- ↑ Public Domain Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Thomas of Jesus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ↑ Henry Edward Manning (card.) (1855). Pictures of Christian Heroism. London: Burns and Lambert. p. 241-242. ISBN 978-0-8370-7408-5. Archived from the original on December 17, 2018 – via archive.org.
- ↑ Adolphe D. Tanquerey (Rev.) (1930). The Spiritual life. A treatise on spiritual and mystical theology (2nd ed.). Tournai (BG): Society of St John the Evangelist, Desclée & Co (printers for the Holy See and the Sacred Congr. of Rites). pp. xli (bibliography). Archived from the original on December 16, 2018 – via archive.org., with the imprimatur of Michael J. Curley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore
External links
- Trabalhos de Jesus, 1865 edition, at archive.org
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