Telesphorus of Cosenza

Telesphorus of Cosenza (also Telesforus, Theoloforus, Theolosphorus, unknown life data), lived in the late 14th century, at the time of the Western Schism. He probably belonged to the extreme Spirituals, the Clare Africans to.

He came as his compatriot Joachim of Fiore in Calabria and wrote in 1386 based on Joachim's ideas and other Weissagungsbücher a treatise de statu ecclesiae et magnis tribulationibus. Telesphorus was a partisan of the French monarchy, and prophesied the victory of the French king, and the collection of a French Angel Pope. Henry of Long Stone wrote in 1392 a Widerlegungsschrift, used was the writing of the Telesphorus by Thomas Ebendorfer and John Lichtenberger.