Antonio Royo Marín Explained

Type:priest
Honorific-Prefix:The Reverend Father
Antonio Royo Marín
Ordination:1944
Birth Name:Antonio Royo Marín
Birth Date:9 January 1913
Birth Place:Morella
Death Place:Villava
Nationality:Spanish
Religion:Catholic (Latin Church)
Profession:Priest, teacher, theologian

Antonio Royo Marín, O.P. (Morella, Castellón, 9 January 1913 - Villava, 17 April 2005), was a Spanish Dominican priest and theologian. He was an influential theologian and moralist, specially as a Thomist.

Biography

He was the third of seven children. He moved with his family to Madrid in 1928, aged 15 years old. He soon joined the Catholic Union of Atocha. He asked to join the Dominican novitiate, but a bout of tuberculosis made him return to his family home. He started studying Philosophy at Madrid Seminary, probably in 1934/35. He was captured twice by Republican militiamen during the Spanish Civil War but escaped execution. He later said that he believed that he wasn't worthy of martyrdom, and because of this God spared his life.

He joined the Dominican Order in 1939 and was ordained a priest in 1944. He was a teacher of Moral and Dogmatic Theology at the University of San Estebán, in Salamanca. He was approved "summa cum laudem" with his Doctorate thesis, Teología de la Perfección Cristiana (Theology of the Christian Perfection), in June 1948, published in 1954, which would become his most famous work, being translated into several languages.

He was awarded the medal Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice by Pope John Paul II.[1]

Works

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://es.catholic.net/op/articulos/22758/p-antonio-royo-marn-op-una-estrella-en-la-tradicin-dominicano-tomista.html P. Antonio Royo Marín, O.P.: una estrella en la tradición dominicano-tomista, Catholic Net (Spanish)
  2. Web site: Índice Analítico.