Leonardo Lessius

October 11, 1554 (age 68)

Brecht, Antwerp Province, Belgium

This university is the main place he will be identified with for the next fifty years. In 1567 he matriculated in an arts department called Le Porc (Porcus alit doctos), during the final oral exam he was merited the title of primus. He joined the Jesuits in 1572, and after theological studies in Rome under Suarez and Robert Bellarmine, he became professor of theology at the University of Leuven. In his early teaching years, he was involved in the predestination theological debate that was raging in Leuven in 1587-1588 (against Baianism). His simple tomb is located in the baptistry, just to the north of the apse.

Leonardo Lessius

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priest theologian

Education

Catholic University of Leuven. Pontifical Gregorian University.

Career

This university is the main place he will be identified with for the next fifty years. In 1567 he matriculated in an arts department called Le Porc (Porcus alit doctos), during the final oral exam he was merited the title of primus. He joined the Jesuits in 1572, and after theological studies in Rome under Suarez and Robert Bellarmine, he became professor of theology at the University of Leuven.

In his early teaching years, he was involved in the predestination theological debate that was raging in Leuven in 1587-1588 (against Baianism).

His simple tomb is located in the baptistry, just to the north of the apse.

Achievements

At the age of thirteen the young Leonard won the Brecht scholarship to the University of Leuven.

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