Daniello Concina

On the completion of his early studies at the Jesuit college at Görz (then in Austria), he entered the Dominican Order making his religious profession in March 1708, in the convent of Sts.

He confined himself at first to the smaller places, but his success soon brought him to the pulpits of the chief cities of Italy; and he preached the Lenten sermons seven times in the principal churches of Rome.

(Venice, 1736, 1745), in which he refuted the opinion, then recently adopted by the Bollandists, that St. Dominic had borrowed his ideas and form of religious poverty from St. Francis of Assisi.

While engaged in the sharp controversy aroused by this work, he entered into another concerning the Lenten fast, which was not closed until Benedict XIV issued on 30 May 1741 the Encyclical "Non ambigimus" which was favourable to Concina's contention.

A commission of theologians was then appointed to examine the work, with the result that Concina was requested to prefix to the subsequent edition a declaration dictated by the pope.

This declaration, which was practically a summary of the petition of condemnation made by his opponents, appeared in the edition of 1752, but that work itself showed no changes of importance, except the addition of one chapter to the preface in which the author protested that he had always entertained the sincerest regard for the Society of Jesus, that as private theologian he refuted opinions which he considered lax, regardless of authorship, and that if he had erred in any way or done any wrong, he was ready to make a full retractation (cf.

In Italy he promoted the publication of a moral theology by the French Jesuit Paul Gabriel Antoine, which Benedict XIV ordered to be taught in the College of the Propaganda Fide.