Francis Xavier Patrizi (Rome, 19 June 1797 – Rome, 23 April 1881) was an Italian

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Life

He was the eldest son and heir of the Roman Marquis Giovanni Patrizi and his wife Princess Kunegunde of Saxony, entered the Society of Jesus, 12 November 1814, was ordained priest in 1824, and soon became professor of Sacred Scripture and Hebrew in the

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. The revolution of 1848 caused Patrizi and his fellow professor

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to take refuge in England. Here, and afterwards at the

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, Patrizi taught Scriptures to the Jesuit scholastics. When peace was restored at Rome, he again began to lecture in the Roman College. The revolution of 1870 ended his career as a teacher, and he found a home in the German-Hungarian College of Rome, remaining there till death.

Works

He wrote twenty-one biblical and ascetical works. Of the former the most important are: * ''De interpretatione scriptararum sacrarum'' (2 vols., Rome, 1844); * ''De consensu utriusque libri Machabæorum'' (Rome, 1856); * ''De Evangeliis'' (3 vols., Freiburg im Breisgau, 1853); * ''In Joannem commentarium'' (Rome, 1857); ''In Marcum commentarium'' (Rome, 1862); * ''In Actus Apostolorum commentarium'' (Commentary on the

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; Rome, 1867); * ''Cento salmi tradotti litteralmente dal testo ebraico e commentati'' (a translation of the

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; Rome, 1875); * ''De interpretatione oraculorum ad Christum pertinentium'' (Rome, 1853); * ''De immaculata Mariæ origine'' (Origin of the

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; Rome, 1853); * ''Delle parole di San Paolo: In quo omnes peccaverunt'' (Rome, 1876). His Latin is classical and found to be plodding by some. His work on interpretation has gone through many editions. The Gospel commentaries were meant especially to refute the

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of the time.

References

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, Bibliothèque de la C. de J., VI, 366-69 **Cività Cattolica, 11th series, VI, 491. {{DEFAULTSORT:Patrizi, Francis Xavier 1797 births 1881 deaths 19th-century Italian Jesuits Italian biblical scholars Jesuit theologians Roman Catholic biblical scholars 19th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians