Valerianus Magnus

Valerian by Magni, OFM Cap, (* October 15, 1586 in Milan as Maximilian de Magni; † July 29, 1661 in Salzburg) was Provincial of the Austro -Bohemian Province of the Capuchin and diplomat.

Life

His parents, who came from both a Milanese merchant family, was Constantin von Magni (1527-1606), the imperial privy councilor in Vienna, and Octavia ( 1562 - after 1616), daughter of Giovanni Paolo Carcassola. 1588 the family moved to Prague, where in 1598 his brother Franz was born.

Maximilian of Magni occurred in 1602 in Prague in the Capuchin Order and took the first name of Valerian ( Valerian a Milano ). After ordination, he became a noted preacher and philosophical lecturer and reached through his teaching the benevolence of the emperor. Soon he was Provincial of the Austro -Bohemian Province of the Order and worked beside for the Emperor and other European princes as a counselor. 1616 gave him the Polish king Sigismund III. the Capuchin mission in his country. 1621 Emperor Ferdinand II sent him with a diplomatic mission to France. 1622-1623 he was one of the counselors of the Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria and reached for it in Paris 's support for the Bavarian Electorate. After the Battle of White Mountain, he supported the Archbishop of Prague 1623-1634 Ernst Adalbert von Harrach in the recatholicization the population and diocesan reforms. On behalf of Emperor in 1630 he took part in the negotiations with Cardinal Richelieu in part on the hereditary succession in Mantua. 1635 he worked as a theological expert in the negotiations for the Peace of Prague and since 1645 as Apostolic missionary for the Electorate of Saxony, Hesse, Brandenburg, and Danzig. 1650-1652 he reached the conversion of the Landgrave Ernst von Hessen- Rhein field and his wife.

After the Charles University in Prague in 1623 was transferred to the Jesuits, he took against the Jesuits a negative attitude, as a result of which he wrote in 1661 against a font. He was then taken into custody in Vienna. In intercession high personages he was released from prison and moved back to Salzburg. There he died in the same year.

Works

  • De luce mentium (1642 )
  • Principia Philosophiae et specimen ( 1652)
  • Opus philosophicum (1660 )
  • Acta disputationis habitae Rheinfelsae apud S. Goarem ( 1652)
  • Christiana et catholica defensio, adversum Societatem Jesus haeresi vel atheismo infectam (1661 )
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