Álvarez de Paz
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Álvarez de Paz (1560 – 17 January 1620) was a Spanish Jesuit mystic of the Society of Jesus, born at Toledo.
He joined the Society in 1578, and taught theology and philosophy at Lima. Occasionally during his sermons, he fell into ecstasy and had to be carried from the pulpit. The fame of his sanctity was so great in South America, that, when he arrived, in a dying condition, at Potosi, the whole city came out to receive his blessing.
On the day of his death at Potosi, 100,000 men in the silver mines stopped work to assist at his funeral. He is said to have had the gift of prophecy, and it is reported that after his death his body remained incorrupt.
Works
- De vita spirituali ejusque perfectione (1608);
- De exterminatione mali et promotione boni 1613;
- De inquisitione pacis, sive de studio orationis 1611.
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