Francisco Garau

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Francisco Garau

1640–1701

A Catalan Jesuit writer and theologian from the Baroque era, he taught theology, led several Jesuit colleges, and became known for books that mixed moral reflection, learning, and sharp religious polemic.

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La fee triunfante en quatro autos Celebrados en Mallorca por el Santo Oficio de la Inquisición en que han salido ochenta y ocho reos, y de treinta y siete relajados sólo hubo tres pertinaces.

La fee triunfante en quatro autos Celebrados en Mallorca por el Santo Oficio de la Inquisición en que han salido ochenta y ocho reos, y de treinta y siete relajados sólo hubo tres pertinaces.

by Francisco Garau

About the author

Born in Girona in 1640, Francisco Garau was a Jesuit, theologian, and writer who worked across the Crown of Aragon. Sources describe him as a professor of theology in the Jesuit college of Barcelona and as rector of Jesuit colleges in places including Urgell, Mallorca, and Zaragoza.

He wrote in the rich, learned style of the Spanish Baroque. His books include El sabio instruido de la naturaleza, El sabio instruido de la gracia, and La fe triunfante, a 1691 account tied to the Inquisition in Mallorca. Modern readers often remember him both for his emblematic, moralizing prose and for the controversy surrounding that last work.

Garau died in Barcelona in 1701. His writing shows how closely religion, education, and public debate could be woven together in seventeenth-century Spain.