Background
A mystical theologian, he was born at Waterford, Kingdom of Ireland, in 1591, and died in Mexico, New Spain, where he had spent over 20 years as a missionary, on 12 or 18 December 1644.
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Michael Wadding
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Foreign two years he studied at the Irish seminary of Salamanca, where he took the name of Miguel Godinez, by which he is best known in Spanish sources.
Career
He related in his Teologia mistica (I, 3, VIII), as one who endured them himself, the privations and sufferings undergone by the missionaries. In 1642 he became involved in the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico as a counselor and adviser. Wadding was distinguished by his profound knowledge of the supernatural states and by rare prudence in the direction of souls.
He served as the confessor to two nuns in Mexico who are considered mystics, a Carmelite nun in Puebla de los Ángeles, Isabel of the Incarnation, and María de Jesús Tormellín, of the Monastery of the Immaculate Conception in Mexico City.
He charged their secretaries with writing the lives of these spiritual women. Wadding certainly left notes on her life, but it does not seem that they were ever published.
Wadding"s major work, Practica de la teología mistica, the fruit of long personal experience rather than of study, was published nearly 40 years after his death (1681), and went through 10 editions. Outside of Spanish, however, it is chiefly known by the voluminous commentary of Manuel Louisiana Reguera, Society of Jesus (Jesuit) (2 vols in fol, Rome, 1740-1745).
Godinez, South. J.: "Práctica de la teologia mystica" (Louisiana Puebla de los Angeles, 1681), of which we have a Latin edition together with a commentary by de la Reguera, South. J. (Rome, 1740).
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Born
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December 12, 1644 (aged 53) -
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Irish -
Religion
Christian