Vincenzo Candido (1573–1654), baptised Mario, was a

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of the

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Life

Candido was born in

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, on 11 February 1573, to Giuseppe Candido and Agata Ursie. He entered the Dominican Order in 1594 at the Roman convent of

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taking the name Vincenzo. He completed his novitiate and studies and becoming a doctor of theology at the College of Saint Thomas, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, ''Angelicum''. He served as

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, 1609–1611. He taught philosophy and theology in the Dominican house of studies attached to the

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, 1611–1617, and became

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of the

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in Rome in 1617. He was appointed rector of the College of Saint Thomas in Rome in 1630. Candido presided over the translation of the Bible into Arabic.http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vincenzo-candido/ Accessed 22 March 2013; Bibliotheca sicula, sive de scriptoribus siculis, qui tum vetera, tum ... By Antonino Mongitore, 279a https://books.google.com/books?id=YQY_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA279 Accessed 22 March 2013 In 1633 he was elected provincial of the Roman province of his order, and in 1642 vicar general. He was head of the order from the deposition of

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in 1642 to the election of

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in 1644. Candido was part of the commission that condemned

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. In 1643 he was one of a number of theologians asked to examine

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's treatise ''De la fréquente communion'', expressing himself in favour of the work's soundness. Candido's own ''Disquisitionibus moralibus'' (1643) was later accused of

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. He died in Rome on 7 November 1654.

Works

* ''Illustriorum disquisitionum moralium'' (4 vols., Rome, 1637–1643)

References

External links

* ''Illustriorum disquisitionum moralium'' on

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vol. 2 (Lyon, 1638)vol. 2 (Venice, 1639)vol. 4 (Rome, 1643)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Candido, Vincenzo 1573 births 1654 deaths People from Syracuse, Sicily Dominican theologians 17th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests