Background
Bartolomé Carranza was born at Miranda de Arga, Kingdom of Navarre, in 1503.
(COMENTARIOS SOBRE EL CATECHISMO CHRISTIANO III)
COMENTARIOS SOBRE EL CATECHISMO CHRISTIANO III
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Bartolomé Carranza was born at Miranda de Arga, Kingdom of Navarre, in 1503.
He studied at Alcalá from 1515 to 1520, where Sancho Carranza, his uncle, was professor.
He received his early education at Alcalá and in 1520 entered the Dominican convent of Benalaque near Guadalajara.
He joined the Dominican order in 1520, became a professor of theology at Valladolid, and attended the Council of Trent as a theologian in 1546. The confidant of Charles V and later Philip II, he accompanied Philip to England, and became confessor to Queen Mary. In 1558 he was appointed archbishop of Toledo and in the same year published his Comentarios sobre el catequismo cristiano, which brought the charge of heresy upon him by the Inquisition. Political motives prolonged the Inquisitorial process in Spain, during which he was kept in prison. By order of Pius V the process was transferred to Rome. On April 14, 1576, Carranza was cleared of actual heresy but was asked to sign a condemnation of fourteen errors of which he had been suspected. He died in Rome on May 2, 1576.
(COMENTARIOS SOBRE EL CATECHISMO CHRISTIANO III)
Quotes from others about the person
According to J. P. Kirsch:
"Carranza's sorrowful fate was brought about, largely, by the intense desire to keep all Protestant influences out of Spain. At the same time it cannot be denied that expressions which he used and propositions which he occasionally set forth would of themselves give rise to the suggestion of heretical opinions. "
