PEDRO A See also:

• PEDRO A RIBADENEIRA

RIBADENEIRA  . {1527-1611), hagiologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• TOLEDO
• TOLEDO, COUNCILS OF (Concilia toletana)

Toledo on the 1st of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1527 . As a lad he repaired to See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome for study, and there on the 18th,of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1540 was admitted by See also:

• IGNATIUS ('Iyvfrior)

Ignatius See also:

• LOYOLA, ST IGNATIUS OF (1491–1556)

Loyola, in his thirteenth See also:

• YEAR

year, as one of the Society of Jesus, which had not yet received papal See also:

• SANCTION (Lat. sanctia, from sancire, to decree or ordain)

sanction . He' pursued his studies at See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris (1542) in See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy and See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology . Loyola, in 1555, sent him on a See also:

• MISSION

mission' to See also:

• BELGIUM
• BELGIUM (Fr. Belgique; Flem. Belgic)

Belgium; in pursuance of it he visited See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England in 1558 . A later result of his visit was his Historia E'cclesiastica del scisma del Reyno de Inglaterra (1588-1594), often reprinted, and used in later See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of N . Sander's De Origine et Progressu Schismatis See also:

• ANGLICAN

Anglican . In 156o he was made Provincial of the Society of Jesus in See also:

• TUSCANY
• TUSCANY (Toscana)

Tuscany, thence transferred as Provincial to See also:

• SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily in 1563, again employed in See also:

• FLANDERS (Flem. Vlaanderen)

Flanders, and from 1571 in See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain . In 1574 he settled in See also:

• MADRID

Madrid, where he died on the loth of September 1611 . His most important See also:

• WORK

work is the See also:

• LIFE

Life of Loyola (1572), which he was the first to write . In his first edition of the Life, as also in the second enlarged issue (1587), See also:

• RIBADENEIRA, PEDRO A

Ribadeneira affirmed that Loyola had wrought no See also:

• MIRACLE (Lat. miraculum, from mirari, to wonder)

miracle, except the See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of his Society (thus making his claim parallel with that of See also:

• MAHOMET (strictly MUHAMMAD, commonly also MOHAMMED)

Mahomet, whose only miracle, originally, was the See also:

• KORAN

Koran) . In the See also:

• PROCESS

process for the See also:

• CANONIZATION

canonization of Loyola, a narrative published by Ribadeneira in 1609 exhibited miracles; and these are recorded in an abridgment of the Life by Ribadeneira (published posthumously in 1612) with a statement by Ribadeneira that he had known of them in 1572 but was not then satisfied of their See also:

• PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof .

For this See also:

• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change of See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion he is taken to task by See also:

• BAYLE, PIERRE (1647-1706)

Bayle . That Ribadeneira was, though an able, a very credulous writer, is shown by his lives of the successors of Loyola in the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general-See also:

• SHIP

ship of the Society, Lainez and See also:

• BORGIA, CESARE
• BORGIA, FRANCIS (1510-1572)
• BORGIA, LUCREZIA (1480-1519)

Borgia; and especially by his Flos Sanctorum (1599-1610), a collection of See also:

• SAINTS, BATTLE OF THE

saints' lives, entirely superseded by the labours of the See also:

• BOLLANDISTS

Bollandists . His other See also:

• WORKS

works are numerous but of little moment, including his Tratado de la See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion (1595), intended as a refutation of See also:

• MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO (1469-1527)

Machiavelli's See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

Prince . See his autobiography in his Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu (1602 and 16o8„ supplemented by P.Alegambe and N.Sotwell in 1676) ; N . See also:

• ANTONIO
• ANTONIO (1429—1498)
• ANTONIO, NICOLAS (1617-1684)

Antonio, Biotheca Hispana Nova (1788) ; Biographie Universelle (See also:

• MICHAUD, JOSEPH FRANCOIS (1767–1839)

Michaud) (1842-1865) . (A .