Martin Becanus

Martinus Becanus (6 January 1563 – 24 January 1624) was a Flemish Jesuit priest, known as a theologian and controversialist.

Life

He was born in Hilvarenbeek in the Southern Netherlands; his original surname was Schellekens. He entered the Society of Jesus on 22 March 1583, and taught Theology for twenty-two years at Würzburg, Mainz, and Vienna.[1]

He died in Vienna, where he was the confessor to the Emperor Ferdinand II.

Works

A first class controversialist and prolific writer Becanus is the author of some 37 books, most of them works of polemics.

Among numerous other works was his Summa Theologiae Scholasticae.

References

Notes

  1.  "Martin Becan". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
  2. W. B. Patterson, King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (1997), note 139 p. 101.
  3. Peter Godman, The Saint as Censor: Robert Bellarmine between inquisition and index (2000), p. 203.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Martin Becan". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.