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Peter Canisius SJ (Dutch: Pieter Kanis; 8 May 1521 – 21 December 1597) was a Dutch Jesuit priest known for his strong support for the Catholic faith during the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Switzerland and the British Isles.
Peter Canisius SJ (Dutch: Pieter Kanis; 8 May 1521 – 21 December 1597) was a Dutch Jesuit priest known for his strong support for the Catholic faith during the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Switzerland and the British Isles.
Van Lierde was born in Hasselt, Belgium, to a Dutch family.After his education, he joined the Order of Saint Augustine and was ordained a priest on 30 May 1931. After receiving doctorates in theology and philosophy, he headed the Augustinian College Saint Monica in Rome, where he hid many refugees including military officers, Jews and anti-fascist politicians during the war years.
Early Dutch Jesuit scholar Peter Canisius, who produced several works superseding Erasmus', [note 41] is known to have read, or used phrases from, Erasmus' New Testament (including the Annotations and Notes) and perhaps the Paraphrases, his Jerome biography and complete works, the Adages, the Copia, and the Colloquies: [note 42] Canisius ...
When Canisius mischievously alluded to differences among the Protestants themselves in their doctrine of original sin and justification, which they could not overcome, the meeting was dissolved. Other participants present at this Colloquy included Julius von Pflug , Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig , Johannes Pistorius , François Hotman ...
Most of his career as a writer was almost exclusively dedicated to writing Jesuit History. His primary interest was the early history of the Society of Jesus. The first work to come from his pen was his two-volume biography of the Jesuit Cardinal Robert Bellarmine. In 1935 there followed his biography of St. Peter Canisius. Both works were ...
Theodorich Canisius (1532–1606), Jesuit academic, half-brother of St. Peter Canisius; Henricus Canisius (1562–1610), Dutch canonist and historian, nephew of St. Peter Canisius; Aegidius of Viterbo (Ægidius Canisius), Italian humanist and cardinal; Canisius Thekkekara (1914–1998), Syrian Catholic priest
Canisius was a half-brother of St. Peter Canisius.After winning, at the age of twenty-two, the highest academic distinction at Louvain, he decided to follow his stepbrother and enter the Society of Jesus, and was sent to St. Ignatius of Loyola in Rome, who received him into the Society.