Hilarius of Sexten

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Franciscan (Capuchin) · ?–1900

In Prümmer's Catalogue and Haringer's Index

“Hilarius a Sexten, O.Cap., Austrian (d. 1900), composed several moral works in a clear style, for example Compendium theologiae mor., 2 volumes in 8vo, Meran 1889; Tractatus pastoralis de sacramentis, there, 1895; De censuris, Mainz 1898.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors

His Moral System, as Our Authors Report It

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Equiprobabilist
Counted among them by one of our authors	Noldin, Summa I, n. 243

Works Our Authors Used

Hilarius a Sexten, Tractatus Pastoralis de Sacramentis, Mainz, 1895. — Tanquerey's list

In the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)

“Hilarius of Sexten”, vol. 7, by Lawrence Hess. Public domain; transcription at New Advent (which expands some of the print's abbreviations).

(In the world, CHRISTIAN GATTERER.)

Moral theologian; born 1839, in the valley of Sexten in the Tyrol; died 20 October, 1900. After a course of studies at Brixen, he entered the Capuchin Franciscan Order in 1858 and was ordained priest in 1862. Having laboured in parochial duties for some years, he was appointed to teach moral theology at Meran in 1872. His fame as a moral theologian soon spread beyond his own convent, and both secular and regular clergy consulted him in difficult cases, for he had a special gift in applying theoretical principles to actual facts. In 1882 he was appointed examiner of confessors for the Diocese of Trent. Even while fulfilling the office of lector, he was ever ready to work in the ministry, preaching and hearing confessions. He used to urge his students to bend all their efforts to win men to religion, since, he said, devout women can always find confessors. At the special command of the general of the order, he published his "Compendium Theologiae Moralis" (Meran, 1889). Later, at the request of the clergy, he published a "Tractatus de Sacramentis", and a "Tractatusde Censuris". His somewhat original treatment of his subjects did not gain universal approval, but his works had a wide sale, especially in Germany and Austria. He also contributed many articles to the "Linzer Quartalschrift". He fulfilled many offices in his order, being at different times lector, guardian, definitor, and minister-provincial. In this last office, which he filled 1889-1892, he accepted for his province of the Tyrol a missionary district in India.

Sources: Analecta Ord. F. M. Capucc., XVI (Rome, 1900).