Vitus Miletus
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Vitus Miletus (surname originally Möller) (1549 at
Life
He studied at the
He was summoned to Mainz by the Elector Daniel Brendel von Homburg, where he was active in the reform of the clergy. From there he was sent by the elector to Erfurt, to assist the suffragan bishop Nicolaus Elgard in his efforts for the restoration of Catholicism. His sermons on the doctrine of the Eucharist, preached at Erfurt in Lent, 1579, involved him in sharp controversy with the Protestant preachers.
He was sent to Rome in 1582 to bring the pallium for the new archbishop, Wolfgang von Dalberg. The latter brought him back again to Mainz, and employed him on his affairs, notably on the visitation of monasteries. Also in 1601 and 1604 he brought from Rome the confirmation and the pallium for the succeeding archbishops, Adam von Bicken, and Schweikard von Cronberg.
He wrote and preached, defending the Catholic faith, until his death. He was provost of St. Moritz, dean of the
Works
His polemical and apologetic writings are:
- "De festo Corporis Christi in honorem Jesu Christi" (Mainz, 1580);
- "Augenschein des Jesuiter Spiegels, so neuwlich zu Erffurdt in truck aussgangen" (Cologne, 1582);
- "De sacramentis, mille sexcenti errores, vaniloquia et cavillationes eorum, qui hoc tempore ab Ecclesia secesserunt catholica, cum brevi eorum refutatione; plerique collecti ex Kemnitio" (Mainz, 1593);
- "Brevis discussio et refutatio sexcentorum errorum, quos duo Praedicantes Saxonici Tilemannus Heshusius et Joannes Olearius Pontificiis hoc est Christianis Catholicis vanissime hactenus attribuerunt" (Mainz, 1604).
References
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Vitus Miletus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites:
- ROTH in Württembergische Vierteljahrshefte für Landesgeschichte, new series, ninth year (1900), S. 304-306 online;
- STEINHUBER, Geschichte des Collegium Germanicum Hungaricum in Rom., I (Freiburg im Br., 1895), 75, 95 sq., 195, 197, 201-3, 303 online;
- JUNGNITZ, Die Breslauer Germaniker (Breslau, 1906), S. 24-27 online;
- FUNK in Kirchenlexikon, 2, Aufl., VIII, 1515 f.