Luis de Carvajal

Friar Minor and Tridentine theologian, b. about 1500; the time of his death is uncertain

Friar Minor

and

Tridentine

theologian

, b. about 1500; the time of his death is uncertain. Of the noble and

wealthy

family

of Carvajal in the old Spanish province of Baetica, Carvajal was possessed of extraordinary

gifts

of

mind

and heart, and at an early age was sent to the

University of Paris

, where he completed his studies. Having entered the

Franciscan Order

, he taught

theology

at

Paris

, whence he was sent as

legate

of Cardinal Angelus to the

Council of Trent

. During the fifth session, in which the

doctrine

of

original sin

was discussed, Carvajal addressed the Council in favour of the

Immaculate Conception

, in defending which he had already won fame at

Paris

; it was doubtless owing to him that the Council inserted the words beginning "Declarat tamen" at the end of the fifth canon of this session. The last glimpse we get of Carvajal is at

Antwerp

in 1548, at which time he brought out the third edition of his "Theologicarum sententiarum liber singularis". Besides this work, he is the author of the "Declamatio expostulatoria pro immaculatâ conceptione" (Paris, 1541) and of a defence of the

religious

orders against

Erasmus

, entitled "Apologia monasticae professionis" (Antwerp, 1529).