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The roman printing office of Nicolas Angel Tinassio was famous for manufacturing a great quantity of the Santa Rosa literature. Although, no less remarkable is the fact that between the years of 1681 and 1682, he published the three volumes of True Treasures of the Indies of the Dominican fray...
Andrés Ferrer de Valdecebro nació en Albarracín (Teruel) en 1620, en el seno de una familia instruida en la que encontró los primeros estímulos para las letras. Tras ingresar en la Orden de Predicadores y obtener el grado de Maestro en Sagrada Teología en el convento madrileño de Santo Tomás,...
Fray Antonio González Acuña, Bishop of Caracas, was the procurator of the cause of beatification of Rosa de Lima in Rome. This Lima’s native dressed early the habit of Santo Domingo in the great convent of the Rosario. There he became a professor and, later, at the Royal University of...
The Dominican fray Jacinto Parra was widely involved in the santarrosino process. To him we owe the compilation of sermons and descriptions of festivals entitled Rosa laureada and, of course, the translation of the famous hagiography of Leonardo Hansen. Although Hansen's hagiography is not the first and Parra's translation does...
There were many quills that narrated the wonderful life of Rosa de Santa María. The prototype of all these worthy narrations is the highbrow work of Fray Leonardo Hansen, which has numerous editions and translations. This allowed different Dominican authors - around the world - such as Lorenzo Lucchesini (Italy),...
Johannes Hoornbeek was a controversial theologian of the old Netherland Reformed Church of Calvinist line. His work during the seventeenth century was of special importance for the comparative study of religions, due to his interest in systematically spreading the Christian faith among the Gentile peoples of the whole world. Since...