Leonardus Lessius [SEP] father
Leonardus Lessius
Leonardus Lessius (; 1 October 1554, in Brecht – 15 January 1623, in Leuven) was a Flemish moral theologian from the Jesuit order.
Life.
At the age of thirteen the young Leonard won the Brecht scholarship to the University of Leuven. This university is the main place he will be identified with for the next fifty years. In 1567 he matriculated in an arts department called Le Porc (Porcus alit doctos), during the final oral exam he was merited the title of primus.
: Leonardus Lessius, "Quae fides et religio sit capessenda"
- 1614: "Breviarium Romanum", with illustrations by Rubens
- 1615: Robert Bellarmine, "De ascensione mentis in Deum"
- 1617: Leonardus Lessius, "De iustitia et iure", with illustrations by Rubens
- 1620: Henricus Culens, "Spiritualium Strenarum ac variarum Concionum manipulus"
- 1620: Robert Bellarmine, "De arte bene moriendi"
- 1621: Justus Lipsius, "De Vesta et vestalibus syntagma"