Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Ferreres, I. B.
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
Jesuit
In the Index: Ferreres, J. B. (S.J.)
Life
Born 28 November 1861, Ollería (Valencia); died 29 December 1936, Valencia; a martyr of the Spanish persecution; beatified. [Diccionario Biográfico Español]
- Juan Bautista Ferreres Boluda entered the seminary of Valencia at sixteen and was rector of the College of the Presentation and St. Thomas of Villanova; entered the Society of Jesus in 1888. [Diccionario Biográfico Español]
- Professor of moral theology and canon law at the Jesuit theologate of Sarriá. [Diccionario Biográfico Español]
- His Compendium theologiae moralis (Barcelona, 1902, 2 vols.; Spanish 1920), built on Gury with large additions, and Casus conscientiae (1903) were widely used, especially in Spain and Portugal and their lands (Prümmer). [Diccionario Biográfico Español; Prümmer, Catalogue of authors]
Sources: Diccionario Biográfico Español (Real Academia de la Historia); Prümmer, Manuale theologiae moralis, Catalogue of authors (on this site). Each fact names where it was read; the links go to the page or entry itself.
In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index
- “Ferreres, I. B., S.J., Spanish, enlarged the works of Gury, Compendium theol. mor. and Casus conscientiae, with very good additions. Besides this he published several moral and canonical works, which are excellent and very useful, notably for peoples who use the Spanish and Portuguese languages.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).