Girolamo Seripando
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Girolamo Seripando (
cardinal.[1]
Life
He was of noble birth, and intended by his parents for the legal profession. After their death, however, at the age of fourteen, he entered the
Augustinian Order, at Viterbo
, where he studied Greek and Hebrew as well as philosophy and theology.
After a short stay in Rome, where he had been called by his superior general, he was appointed lecturer at
Emperor Charles V
often made it a point to be present at his sermons.
Elected
superior general in 1539, he governed for twelve years. The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia describes him as displaying "singular prudence, zeal, and piety." In 1546, he attended the sessions of the Council of Trent, where he distinguished himself by his zeal for the purity of biblical texts, and also by his views concerning original sin and justification that council fathers felt were more in line with Lutheran view.[2][3]
Archbishop of Salerno
. The Catholic Encyclopedia describes him as a "zealous and efficient pastor."
A few years later (1561),
Cardinal Gonzaga
, he became first president of the same council.
Works
The Catholic Encyclopedia describes Seripando as "an elegant and prolific writer, and a vigorous controversialist, rather than an orator." The following are his principal published works:
- Novae constitutiones ordinis S. Augustini (Venice, 1549)
- Oratio in funere Caroli V imperatoris (Naples, 1559)
- Prediche sopra il simbolo degli Apostoli, etc. (Venice, 1567)
- Commentarius in D. Pauli epistolas ad Galatas (Venice, 1569)
- Commentaria in D. Pauli epistolas ad Romanos et ad Galatas (Naples, 1601)
- De arte orandi (Lyons, 1670)
- several letters, included by Lagomarsini in Poggiani epist. et orationes (Rome, 1762).
References
Sources
- Louis Ellies du Pin, Hist. de l'eglise (Paris, 1703)
- Raynald-Mansi, Annal. eccl. (Lucca, 1735–6)
- Ossinger, Bibl. August. (Ingolstadt, 1768)
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Girolamo Seripando". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.- OCLC 53276621.
- Abbondanza, Rocchina (1982). Girolamo Seripando tra Evangelismo e Riforma Cattolica. (in Italian). Naples: Editrice Ferraro 1982.
- Cesareo, Francesco C. (1999). A Shepherd in Their Midst: The Episcopacy of Girolamo Seripando (1554-1563). Augustinian Press, 1999.
- Jedin, Hubert (1947). Papal Legate at the Council of Trent: Cardinal Seripando. trans. Frederic C. Eckhoff (St. Louis: B. Herder, 1947).
- Olivier, D. (1968). "Les deux sermons sur la double et la triple justice," (in French). Öcumenica 3 (1968), pp. 39–69.
- Schmitz, Edwin F. (1955). Girolamo Seripando and Justification at the Council of Trent. St. Mary's Seminary (Baltimore, Md.), 1955.
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