Career
His writings, a single book, underline much the ascetical dimension of religious life. As master of novices he had under his charge Francisco Suárez, the celebrated theologian. Alonso"s characteristics in these offices were care, diligence, and charity.
He was a religious of great piety and candour, hating all pride and ostentation.
lieutenant was said of him by those who were personally acquainted with him, that his character and virtues were accurately depicted in Ejercicio de perfecciónew york virtudes cristianas, published at Seville, 1609. lieutenant is a book of practical instructions on all the virtues which go to make up the perfect Christian life, whether lived in the cloister or in the world.
More than twenty-five editions of the original Spanish have been issued, besides extracts and abridgements. More than sixty editions have appeared in French in seven different translations, twenty in Italian, at least ten in German, and eight in Latin.
An English translation from the French by French
Antony Hoskins, Society of Jesus (Jesuit), was printed at Saint Omer in 1612. The best known English translation, under the title Practice of Christian Perfection, often reprinted, is that which first appeared in London, 1697, from the French text of Abbé Regnier des Marais. Physician organization Shea issued in New York an edition adapted to general use in 1878.
The book has been translated into nearly all the European languages and into many of those of the East.
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Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton.