André Dias de Escobar

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Dias and the second or paternal family name is de Escobar.

André Dias de Escobar (Latin: Andreas Didaci de Escobar; c. 1366/67–c. 1448) was a Portuguese Benedictine theologian.

Born at Lisbon, Andreas de Escobar joined the Dominicans and then the Augustinians before becoming a Benedictine monk. He became doctor in theology at the University of Vienna in 1393. He became bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, bishop of Ajaccio in 1422 and bishop of Megara in 1428.^[1] He was one of the most widely printed authors of the late fifteenth century.^[2] Escobar served as a minor penitentiary in the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Roman curia.

Works

• Lumen confessorum
• Confessio minor seu Modus confitendi
• Confessio maior
• De decimis
• Canones penitentiales

References

1. Ken Pennington, Medieval and Early Modern Jurists: A Bio-Bibliographical Listing: 1298-1500 Archived 2014-08-04 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 11 May 2013.
2. Michael Milway (2000). "Forgotten best-sellers from the dawn of the Reformation". In Robert James Bast; Andrew C. Gow; Heiko Augustinus Oberman (eds.). Continuity and Change: The Harvest of Late Medieval and Reformation History : Essays Presented to Heiko A. Oberman on His 70th Birthday. BRILL. p. 142. ISBN 978-90-04-11633-7. Retrieved 11 May 2013.