Giovanni
Antoniano
Patrologist, b. at
Nimeguen, in Holland, early in the sixteenth century; d. same place,
in 1588. From his very entrance into the Dominican Order, in his
city, his patience, industry, and inclination for patristic studies,
singled him out as a capable editor of the writings of the Fathers of
the Church, then urgently called for by the learned. As Prior of
Nimeguen in 1566, and again in 1587, he distinguished himself for his
learned and erudite sermons against the fundamental principles of
Protestantism. He was associated in his literary labours with Henry
Gravius, whose pupil he was, and whom he succeeded as editor of the
works of the Fathers. Antoniano published (Cologne, 1537), with the
critical apparatus of his day, the work of St. Gregory of Nyssa on
the creation of man and the "Hexameron" of St. Basil the
Great, both in the Latin translation of Dionysius Exiguus. He also
published (Cologne, 1560) the writings of St. Paulinus of Nola, and
(Antwerp, 1568) the letters of St. Jerome.
QUETIF AND ECHARD,
SS. Orrd. Praed., II, 283; MEIJER, Dommikaner Klooster en Statie te
Nejemegem (1892), 84 sqq.
THOS. M.
SCHWERTNER