Casiodoro de Reina
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Casiodoro de Reina or de Reyna (c. 1520 – 15 March 1594) was a Spanish
Early life
Reina was born about 1520 in Montemolín in the Province of Badajoz.[1][2] From his youth onward, he studied the Bible.[1]
In 1557, he was a monk of the
Reina travelled in 1559[4] to London, where he served as a pastor to Spanish Protestant refugees. However King Philip II of Spain was exerting pressure for his extradition.
In exile on the Continent
In the late 1550s he was suspected by the Spanish inquisitors in
About 1563
Reina wrote the first great book against the Inquisition: Sanctae Inquisitionis hispanicae artes aliquot detectae, ac palam traductae ("Some arts of Holy Inquisition"). This work was printed in 1567 in Heidelberg under the pseudonym: Reginaldus Gonsalvius Montanus.
He secretly translated the work of the critic of Calvin,
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Biblical translation
While in exile, variously in London, Antwerp, Frankfurt,
Reina was granted citizenship by Frankfurt on 16 August 1571. He worked as a silk trader to make money for his family. In 1574, he bought the library of
Step by step, he became a true member of the Lutherans. Around 1580, he published a Catechism, in the sense of Luther's Catechism, in Latin, French and Dutch.[8]
Death
Reina died in 1594 in Frankfurt.[4]
Works
Beside
- Confessión de Fe cristiana (hecha por ciertos fieles españoles, los cuales, huyendo los abusos de la Iglesia Romana y la crueldad de la Inquisición de España, dexaron su patria, para ser recibidos de la Iglesia de los fieles, por hermanos en Christ). London, ca. 1560 - Reprint: Confessión de fe Christiana. The Spanish Protestant Confession of Faith. Exeter, 1988, edited by A. Gordon Kinder
- Sanctae Inquisitionis hispanicae artes aliquot detectae, ac palam traductae. Heidelberg, 1567, under the pseudonym: Reginaldus Gonsalvius Montanus; the Spanish title: Algunas artes de la Santa Inquisición española; (in English: Some arts of Holy Inquisition)
- La Biblia que es los Sacros libros del Vieio y Nuevo Testamento ... Transladada en Espanol. Basel, 1569
- Evangelium Ioannis. Frankfurt am Main, 1573; published in Latin; in the Spanish title: Comentarios a los Evangelios de Juan y Mateo
- Expositio primae partis capitis quarti Matthaei. Frankfurt am Main, 1573; Dutch translation by Florentius de Bruin, Dordrecht, 1690; published in Latin; in the Spanish title: Comentarios a los Evangelios de Juan y Mateo
- Sixtus Senensis, ed.: Bibliotheca sancta à F. Sixto Senensi ex praecipuis catholicae ecclesiae authoribus collecta. Frankfurt am Main, 1575
- Confessio in articulo de coena. Antwerpen, 1579
- Catechismus, Hoc est: Brevis instructio de praecipuis capitibus christianae doctrinae, per quaestiones & responsiones, pro Ecclesia Antwerpiensi quae Confessionem Augustanam profitetur. Antwerpen, ca. 1580; published in Latin, French and Dutch; the Spanish title: Catecismo
- Estatutos para la sociedad de ayuda a los pobres y perseguidos, in Frankfurt.
- Exposión de la primera parte del capitulo cuarto de San Mateo sobre las tentaciones de Cristo, edited by Carlos López Lozano. Madrid, 1988
Notes
- ^ a b Hermann Dechent: Reina. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, S. 720–723. (in German)
- ^ Balderas, Eduardo. "How the Scriptures Came to Be Translated into Spanish", Ensign, September 1972.
- ^ ISBN 3-7190-0909-2.
- ^ ISBN 3-88309-048-4.
- ^ Gilly, Carlos (1985).,p.354
- ^ Gilly, Carlos (2001). Die Manuskripte in der Bibliothek des Johannes Oporinus (in German). Basel: Schwabe Verlag. pp. 22–23.
- ^ Gilly, Carlos (2001). pp.18–19
- ^ compare Hermann Dechent: Reina. In Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, S. 720–723. (in German)
- ^ Inquiries with the: Karlsruher Virtuellen Katalog
References
- Kinder, A. Gordon. 1975: Casiodoro de Reina: Spanish Reformer of the Sixteenth Century. Tamesis, London. ISBN 0-7293-0010-2
- Wenneker, Erich (1994). "REINA, Cassiodoro di". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 7. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 1524–1528. ISBN 3-88309-048-4.
- Dechent, Hermann (1888). "Reina". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 27. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 720–723.
Further reading
- Herero, José: Bible Translation History: Spanish Bible
- Rosales, Raymond S. Casiodoro de Reina, patriarca del Protestantismo hispano, in Serie de monografías [de las] Publicaciones del Seminario Concordia, no. 5. Saint Louis, Mo.: Concordia Seminary Publications, 2002. ISBN 0-911770-74-7
