Soto, Petrus de

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Dominican · ?–1563

Life

Born Córdoba, of a noble family; died 20 April 1563, at the Council of Trent. [Hurter, vol. II, col. 1462]

Entered the Dominicans in 1518; confessor and counsellor of Charles V, who took him to Germany; at his own request left the court to oppose the new heresies, and taught Scripture at the University of Dillingen for Cardinal Otto of Augsburg, helping to draw up the diocesan catechism (1548). [Hurter, vol. II, col. 1462]
Under Queen Mary he went to England with Carranza and Villagarcía to restore sound doctrine at Oxford and Cambridge, and went into exile at her death (1558). [Hurter, vol. II, col. 1462]
Sent to the reopened Council of Trent by Pius IV as papal theologian, where his authority was great; he died there to the Council's grief. [Hurter, vol. II, col. 1462]
Works: Institutiones christianae (Augsburg, 1548), Methodus confessionis (Dillingen, 1553), a compendium of Catholic doctrine for the people, and the Tractatus de institutione sacerdotum (Prümmer). [Prümmer, Catalogue of authors]

Sources: H. Hurter, S.J., Nomenclator literarius theologiae catholicae, 3rd ed. (Innsbruck, 1903-1913), read on archive.org; 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

“Soto, Petrus de, O.P., Spanish (d. 1563), wrote among other things Tractatus de institutione sacerdotum, qui sub episcopis animarum curam gerunt, in 4to, Dillingen 1558 and often afterward.” — Prümmer, Catalogue of authors
“Sotus Petrus, Spanish, of the Order of St. Dominic (On the Formation of Priests), died 1563.” — Haringer's index of writers (Gury-Ballerini) (p. XXIX, sign read on the page)

Where Our Authors Discuss Him

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“Peter Soto (+ 1563): a classic work concerning the institution of priests”Tanquerey on his work on the instruction of priests	Tanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 45
“Peter Soto (+ 1563)”Koch-Preuss name him among those who, after Trent, joined a systematic exposition with its defense against the Reformers	Koch-Preuss, Handbook I, history of moral theology

Works Our Authors Used

Soto, Dominicus de, O.P., 1494-1560, De Justitia et jure, Salamanca, 1556. — Tanquerey's list

No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).