[Arnauld, Antoine]. Histoire de Dom Jean de Palafox, Eveque d’Angelopolis, & depuis d’Osme. et Des differens tu’il a eus avec les P P. Jesuites; Spine title: “Moral des Jesuits, Tom. IV.” [Place & publisher not identified.]: 1690. [11698]
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“History of Dom Jean de Palafox, Bishop of Angelopolis [in Mexico], and later of Osme, and of the differences he had with the Jesuit Fathers.”
Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (1600-1659) b. Fitero, Spain; d. Osma, Spain. He was Bishop of Puebla, Mexico; Archbishop of Mexico; and Viceroy of New Spain. His opposition to the intrigues of the Jesuits in Mexico led to his recall, but his writings became important and the basis for the ejection of the Jesuits from Spain and Spanish territories a century later.
Attributed to Antoine Arnauld (1612-1694), b. Paris, France; d. Liege, present-day Belgium. [He] “was a powerful figure in the intellectual life of seventeenth-century Europe. He had a long and highly controversial career as a theologian, and was an able and influential philosopher.” - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Arnauld was a Jansenist and a prolific and able defender of those views, which led to his ecclesiastical demotions and exile. “Despite the precarious conditions in which he had to work, the amount of Arnauld’s writing during his exile was enormous. He not only resumed his attack on the Jesuit casuists in the last six volumes of his Morale pratique de Jésuistes (1689-94); the first two [written by Sebastien-Joseph du Cambout de Pontchateau] had appeared in 1669 and 1682) but also intervened in the dispute over the rights of the French monarch in the Gallican church.” - Encyclopedia Britannica online.
