Spanish Roman Catholic priests

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 75. Chapters: Bartolomé de las Casas, Junípero Serra, John of the Cross, Josemaría Escrivá, Nemesi Marqués Oste, Miguel Asín Palacios, Felix Granda, Ignatius of Loyola, Juan de Zumárraga, Juan Ruiz, Álvaro del Portillo, Francisco Combés, Luis Martín, Francis Borgia, Cosme de Torrès, Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, Francisco Vidal y Barraquer, Juan Romero de Figueroa, Alfonso Salmeron, Andrés de Urdaneta, Louis of Granada, Pedro de Ribadeneira, Luis Sotelo, Juan de Torquemada, Francis Ferdinand de Capillas, Alfonso Martínez de Toledo, Rosendo Salvado, Martín de Rada, Francisco de Quiñones, José María Arizmendiarrieta, Domingo Fernández Navarrete, Thyrsus González de Santalla, Peter González, Manuel Arce y Ochotorena, Michael de Sanctis, Juan Pablo Bonet, Francisco Fernández Carvajal, Luis de Bolaños, Didacus Joseph of Cadiz, Pedro Cubero, Jerónimo Manrique de Lara, Fray Thomas de San Martín, Martín Ignacio de Loyola, Juan Nicasio Gallego, José Maria de Zalvidea, José Torrubia, Domingo de Soto, Martín del Barco Centenera, Miguel Cabello de Balboa, Francisco Dumetz, Francisco Marroquín, Martin of Arles, Juan Azor, Diego de Castilla, José Cerviño Cerviño, Vicente de Santa Maria, Diogo Ortiz de Villegas, Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa, Ireneo García Alonso, Juan Álvarez de Toledo, Julián Carrón, Félix Erviti Barcelona, Gregory of Valencia, Ignacio de Arbieto, José Rodríguez Carballo, Cesáreo Gabaráin, Emmanuel Domingo y Sol, Nicholas Bobadilla, Acacio Valbuena Rodríguez, José Marín, Pedro Peláez, Bernardus Compostellanus Junior, Ignatio Francisco Alzina, Hernando de Luque, Evans David Gliwitzki. Excerpt: Miguel Asín Palacios (1871-1944) was a Spanish scholar (an Arabist), and a Roman Catholic priest. He is primarily known for suggesting Islamic sources for ideas and motifs present in Dante's Divine Comedy, which he discusses in his book La Escatología musulmana en la Divina Comedia (1919). He wrote extensively on Al-Ghazali . A major book El Islam cristianizado (1931) presents a study of Sufism through the works of Muhyiddin ibn 'Arabi of Murcia in Andalusia. Also Asín wrote several articles concerning certain Islamic influences on Christianity and on mysticism in Spain. Miguel Asín Palacios was born in Zaragoza, Aragón, on July 5, 1871, into the modest commercial family of Don Pablo Asín and Doña Filomena Palacios. His older brother Luis, his younger sister Dolores, and he were little children when their father died of pneumonia. His mother the young widow continued in business with help and made ends meet with decorum but not as well as before. He attended the Colegio de El Salvador instructed by Jesuits in Zaragoza, where he began to make life-long friendships. He entered the Seminario Conciliar, singing his first Mass at San Cayetano in Zaragoza in 1895. At the Universidad de Zaragoza Asín had met and begun study under the Arabist Professor Julián Ribera y Tarragó. In 1896 at Madrid he defended his thesis on the Persian theologian Algazel (1058-1111) before Francisco Codera Zaidín and Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo. All three professors guided his subsequent studies. Asín then developed his study of Al-Ghazali, and published it in 1901. He also wrote on Mohidin Abenarabe, who is often called the leading figure in Islamic mysticism. Thus Asín was running parallel with a then European-wide effort to understand Muslim inner spirituality. Professor Codera then retired from his chair in the Arabic Language at...