Manuel de Sá

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Manuel de Sá
Born	1530  theologian, biblical scholar
Employer	Pontifical Gregorian University

Manuel de Sá (b. at

History

He distinguished himself as a student at the

In 1557, he became one of the early professors of the

His reputation for scholarship induced Pope Pius V to appoint him as a member of the commission in charge of preparing the authentic edition of the Septuagint. This did not prevent him from continuing his apostolic labours and from founding several houses of his order in Upper Italy. After residing for a time at Genoa, he withdrew to the professed house of Arona (Diocese of Milan), where he died.

Works

His exegetical works are: Scholia in Quatuor Evangelia (Antwerp, 1596), and Notationes in totam Scripturam Sacram (Antwerp, 1598), both of which passed through several editions.

However short, Sá's annotations clearly set forth the literal sense of the Bible, and bespeak a solid erudition, despite a few inaccuracies which have been sharply rebuked by Protestant critics.

His theological treatise entitled Aphorismi Confessariorum ex Doctorum sententiis collecti (Venice, 1595), however remarkable, was censured in 1603, apparently because the

• Aphorismi Confessariorum (in Latin). Antwerp: ex officina Ioachimi Trognaesij. 1599.
• Scholia in Quatuor Evangelia (in Latin). Antwerp: apud Horatium Cardon. 1602.

References

• De Backer, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus (Liège, 1853)
• Hugo von Hurter
  , Nomenclator (Innsbruck, 1907)

External links

• Manuel de Sá in the Archives of Pontifical Gregorian University

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Manoel de Sa". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.